Not looking good at the start of the month.
H says: I spent an hour reading the new book for this month and decided I had better things to do than read further. So I'll come to next meeting purely to hear what everyone else thinks about it.
P adds to that: Having ‘tried’ to read the book before, I knew it would be a tough one – so I’ve bailed on reading and am listening to it as an audio book and really, really enjoying it. It makes sooooo much more sense listening!!
PM: it is wordy, but some bits do have me laughing, and some bits make you think, for instance, about a motto for your area or more importantly, local government and Racism in your community.
Of us, three didn't get very far, it marked 9 and an audiobook story, but 8 and 7 as a book. Two hated the language, but it did get better as the book progressed, though it was still wordy. Was the author trying to show his intelligence and education I wonder?
The first chapter was hard work as it was stream of consciousness and difficult to understand with a lot of American jargon. Why was it necessary to have such an extreme beginning?
It cleared up as it went along, but questions arise as how he got all the money to do the things he did, and with the education that his father had given him, how was he so erudite and able to give latin quotations.
I wrote down a comment that it was 'racism done in a different way'
It would probably go down well in schools because of the racism content and discussion and also because of the different writing style.
Is that why it was on a British reading group list?
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