7 reviews for:

Behindlings

Nicola Barker

3.74 AVERAGE

jeremyhornik's review against another edition

5.0

Nicola Barker has the playful joy in language of Nabokov. This swirling, complicated book about a perverse, grieving, and outrageous man and his many followers has an absurd quality to it, but it is terrifically rooted in the mundane. Funny, sexy, bewildering, great.

schopflin's review

5.0

Loved this book! Frustrating to begin with and her writing style is complex and distracting until you get used to it, but ultimately became a pageturner. 'Who are you? The Joan of Arc of the fucking uterus?'.

jeninenine's review

Stopping for now. Maybe I'll take a run at it later.

areaxbiologist's review

3.0

I'd cast RDJ as Wesley and Helena Bonham Carter as Katherine. Plot slows WAY down towards the end and the short exchanges of thoughts and unfinished sentences are bothersome. But I do like her style.

bartvanovermeire's review

5.0

Lezen-for-life boek nummer 1: 'Behindlings' van Nicola Barker.

I like my books to be out of the ordinary. Luckily, I can count on Nicola Barker to deliver exactly what I want: Wesley steals antique ponds, sleeps inside horses, eats seabirds and is very keen on middle-aged librarians. So, obviously, he has a magnetic effect on people and has developed quite a following, the Behindlings as he calls them. Together they embark on 500+ pages of wicked fun.

canadianbookworm's review

4.0

Odd book, but quite interesting

helmagnusdottir's review

4.0

pretty interesting characters... but a fucking bear to read. so many odd meanderings...