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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
Abandoned the audiobook and shifted to Kindle edition. Much better now.
Not sure I really "got" it. The writing was lovely, just not sure I really connected with the story.
A wonderful coming of age story, written in dazzling prose.
This was not my favourite Michael Ondaatje book. The English Patient and In the Skin of the Lion probably top my list, as I found them to be so beautifully written.
This book was good though. Chronicling a boy's trip by boat from Sri Lanka to England in the '50's and then interspersing that story with snippets of his adult life, Ondaatje still writes beautifully. I guess I did not find the story quite as compelling. It actually flagged for me towards the middle a bit and yet I am glad I finished the book. His writing and his story-telling is so evocative, his books are a joy.
This book was good though. Chronicling a boy's trip by boat from Sri Lanka to England in the '50's and then interspersing that story with snippets of his adult life, Ondaatje still writes beautifully. I guess I did not find the story quite as compelling. It actually flagged for me towards the middle a bit and yet I am glad I finished the book. His writing and his story-telling is so evocative, his books are a joy.
The writing is so good that I could live in this book. I'm going to keep it around so that I can read randomly chosen pages from time to time.
The book club I'm in read this and we were all on the same page. The plot was disjointed and lacked feeling. The characters were not developed well and as readers we could not get invested in them. Overall by the time we got to the end, we didn't care what happened anyway, but if we did the ending would have been disappointing. Bad news all around.
Begin en einde zeer pakkend en spannend maar het middenstuk is eerder eentonig.
"The Cat's Table" is engaging from start to finish. The book's blurb exaggerates the significance of a certain mysterious character to the plot however as it is in fact a story of friendship and coming of age. There is so much that I would like to say of this book but I found that going into it and knowing absolutely nothing about it was what made it so gripping. Read "The Cat's Table", Ondaatje does not disappoint.
What a beautifully written novel. Michael Ondaatje fooled me into thinking The Cat’s Table was his own story.