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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
dark
sad
tense
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The writing is excellent but the characters are quite unlikable and unrelenting
I know it won the Man Booker Prize, but I honestly couldn't get into it. The symbolism is all there, the focus on individual characters and how they impact each other ... it's set in the beautiful countryside in Ireland ... but I honestly wanted to shake all the characters down and give them a set to. I couldn't find one of them to like. I finished it for the reading prompt "a book with your favourite colour in the title", but I can't say it was one of my newly discovered favorites.
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very good family discourse. Told from multiple individual perspectives, it is cohesive, engaging, emotional and real.
Excellent! A poignant look into one family's disfunction. I could relate to so much of the book. I think we all can if we're honest with ourselves.
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
dark
emotional
funny
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol
Enright takes her time getting the pieces into place in this contemporary family drama, which I found a little frustrating. The constant shifting of narrators made it difficult for me to settle into the story. But Enright's prose is clean, precise, and a pleasure to read, and I enjoyed the second half of the novel, when all the pieces were put together and allowed to interact with each other very much.
Bought this novel at Gay’s the Word in London to read on my travels and now I can’t wait to read everything Anne Enright has written! Really beautiful story with almost surgical views at the connections between siblings and children and their parents. Haven’t read a book in a while that actually makes me pause and re-read a line for it’s perfect rhythm and meaning. Definitely recommend!
The Green Road is the story of a dysfunctional Irish Family, about half a generation older than my own family, as the four children grow up and apart and live the lives they chose. We see their choices and failures, their relationships with the world around them and with each other. The home of their childhood and their complicated mother are the center of their orbit, despite how much heartache and trauma they've caused.
I don't even know how to rate this book.
*It took me WAY too long to read.
*It's just only ever hard and depressing. Truly.
*It is a nuanced and intimate.
*The language of this story is lovely and it is well written, I just never enjoyed reading it.
*While it is an "Irish" book, it also takes place all over the world and I didn't feel like I knew the characters well enough before I saw them overseas to understand how all of that fit together.
*It did give me a lot to think about, especially about my role as the mother of adult children.
I can only give it three stars. If there was a movie about it, I wouldn't want to watch it. But I'm not sorry I finished it.
I don't even know how to rate this book.
*It took me WAY too long to read.
*It's just only ever hard and depressing. Truly.
*It is a nuanced and intimate.
*The language of this story is lovely and it is well written, I just never enjoyed reading it.
*While it is an "Irish" book, it also takes place all over the world and I didn't feel like I knew the characters well enough before I saw them overseas to understand how all of that fit together.
*It did give me a lot to think about, especially about my role as the mother of adult children.
I can only give it three stars. If there was a movie about it, I wouldn't want to watch it. But I'm not sorry I finished it.