592 reviews for:

Onze avonden

Alan Hollinghurst

3.95 AVERAGE

gladencommasam's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 6%

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Nothing wrong with this one. Just the wrong time for me. Will probably revisit 

gettygirl's review against another edition

4.75

challenging funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

fillyjonkfarm's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

annabel_winship's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ratingwithears's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ckzinger's review against another edition

3.75

reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A man looking back on his life.  Its told in a low key understated manner - which always makes the story seem sad to me.  I like how he examined particular incidents and relationships in great detail and then there would be big jumps in time.

aleotory's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

motherbox's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

pixchar's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

jeitah's review against another edition

2.0

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Throughout the 460+ pages, I don’t think our protagonist (with an Oxford scholarship) manages to finish one thought or sentence. It must be just as infuriating to have a conversation with someone whose thoughts trail off in a stream of ellipses as it is to read it:

“Oh….”
“Gosh…”
“Well….”
“I….”
“Uh….”
“It’s just that…”

If I were having a conversation with this bloke, I’d have sent him to be examined for signs of a stroke about thirty times over.

This tome is also about 250 pages longer than need be. It basically lurches from school scenes, to dinners, to play rehearsals, and then repeat again for six decades.

The “Giles” character, meant to be the totemic villain of the novel, barely interacts with “Dave” in primary school, and then appears about three times after that. Enormously misleading. This has nothing to do with a Brexit rivalry, and is more a poorly edited wordfest by a wholly unremarkable person.