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suitcaselife's review against another edition
This book has been on my tbr the longest and the first 47 pages are nothing of what the books description (a travel report of the authors journey on foot through the UK) is about. It utterly bored me and I decided not to continue.
pcastleton's review against another edition
5.0
Memoir, history, fiction, along with occasional black and white photograph, rolled into a dreamlike traversing of the European countryside (predominately around Norwich). Never read anything like it. Sebald was influenced by Nabokov, Borges, and Kafka, but also Thomas Browne. Very excited to read the next.
celesten's review against another edition
4.0
I found this hard to get into the groove of at first. You’re thrown head first into a ramble through history (real and imagined) and the east coast England. It probably took me half of the book (and 2 months of getting there) for me to find my feet in his writing and the flow of it all. But by the end I didn’t want to put it down! Definitely need to reread when I’m in the right headspace from the start.
rkkmistry's review against another edition
5.0
ok banger alert...so yes this book was pitched to me as "a guy who walks around a lot and talks about random things,," sort of a male counterpart to all the "woman who sits around smoking in bed and talking about stuff" fiction that I love so much. And don't get me wrong, this guy does walk around. There's a brief moment at the beginning of the book where he takes a train and it seems for a moment like there might be a variety of modes of transportation that piece together journey of this book, but no, it is very much an ambulatory-based adventure and while he may take some rides in cars, I think those are only episodes he's recounting or remembering while walking. Ok, but really what got me about this book was like how eff-ing devastating it was !!! like because he talks about a random variety of things he sort of lulls you into this false sense of security as he begins to very seamlessly transition into talking—quite casually, but not in an inappropriate way—about some of the greatest tragedies in human history. And it's really this context and this lack of agenda that just ends up leaving you so much more open to really internalizing the infinitesimally small smidgen of human suffering that you are able to grasp upon reading about these horrific events.
nickeal1's review against another edition
4.0
I wanted to read this book as I had read a review that mentioned that the author was walking the Suffolk Coast Path , which was where I was going on holiday. Indeed it did give wonderful and interesting descriptions of happenings and areas of this coastline but I was also enthralled by the wanderings of his mind as he made these encounters, what a great deal i learnt in a myriad of subjects
christina_a_f's review against another edition
3.0
I'm forever haunted by the herrings and the silk worms
mamaoreads's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5