A review by accioemilia
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

2.0

I read this book before I saw the movie and I'm not sure I would have cared either way. Both were fairly mediocre in my opinion. The movie was, for once, better than the book. I'm a book purist normally so this is odd for me. However, I just really did not like far too much about this book. Whether it was the page-long tangents of irrelevant description or the slightly awkward writing style of Bernhard Schlink, I don't know if it really matters. This book just did not sit well with me. I appreciate everything it makes a reader think about and the subject matters that it brings up but I wish it had been presented by a better novelist.