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A review by rickyb77
Amnesia by Peter Carey
1.0
Terrible!
I was so keen on reading this book. The blurb on the back cover was the story I wanted to read. I’m a little confused about whether Carey and his publishers genuinely believe this is the book he wrote, or if he just literally lost the plot and didn’t bother trying to find it again. It’s a shame because the story on the back of the book sounded amazing! If the blurb was written to accurately reflect the story the book told, I might have rated it better.
Or, more honestly, I would never have picked the book up in the first place. Sadly, that is what I think the publisher’s intention was - they knew they had a shit story on their hands that no dedicated reader would want to read, so they bullshitted the blurb. And it worked.
But, fool me once, as they say. You won’t get me again Peter Carey.
I was so keen on reading this book. The blurb on the back cover was the story I wanted to read. I’m a little confused about whether Carey and his publishers genuinely believe this is the book he wrote, or if he just literally lost the plot and didn’t bother trying to find it again. It’s a shame because the story on the back of the book sounded amazing! If the blurb was written to accurately reflect the story the book told, I might have rated it better.
Or, more honestly, I would never have picked the book up in the first place. Sadly, that is what I think the publisher’s intention was - they knew they had a shit story on their hands that no dedicated reader would want to read, so they bullshitted the blurb. And it worked.
But, fool me once, as they say. You won’t get me again Peter Carey.