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si0bhan 's review for:
The Odessa File
by Frederick Forsyth
Don’t you just hate it when you finally get to the good part of a book and then life gets really busy so you have to put it aside for a few days?
Sadly, such a thing is what happened with this one. Then, when I managed to get back to it I’d lost the small amount of love which had come about.
I should probably start by saying this is not a bad read. In so many ways it is really good – yet it did not push the right buttons for me. In my eyes too much of the story was lost to information being passed on to us. There is nothing wrong with being given the information we receive in this book – it’s eye-opening and more people should give it a read for this very reason – but I felt as though this meant the actual story lost so much momentum. Moreover, I felt as though in some cases I was being told things that were pretty obvious to me. Such a thing may merely reflect my knowledge of the matters spoken about in this book, but to me it made it hard for me to get back into the actual story once we were done with the thirty page history essay.
Speaking of the story, I felt as though the two different stories merely complicated issues. It was interesting the way that the two stories played together, yet one of the stories was given much more focus than the other so that when we came back to it we were just like ‘oh yeah, I almost forgot about this’. In short, there was not a very good matchup between the two stories being told.
I also felt as though the characters were very one dimensional. Motives were really easy to work out and there was no real character development throughout. We were told what to think about people rather than being given the chance to form our own opinion. Even in the case of the main character there really wasn’t much to make him stand out.
Overall an interesting story but it did not live up to expectations.
Sadly, such a thing is what happened with this one. Then, when I managed to get back to it I’d lost the small amount of love which had come about.
I should probably start by saying this is not a bad read. In so many ways it is really good – yet it did not push the right buttons for me. In my eyes too much of the story was lost to information being passed on to us. There is nothing wrong with being given the information we receive in this book – it’s eye-opening and more people should give it a read for this very reason – but I felt as though this meant the actual story lost so much momentum. Moreover, I felt as though in some cases I was being told things that were pretty obvious to me. Such a thing may merely reflect my knowledge of the matters spoken about in this book, but to me it made it hard for me to get back into the actual story once we were done with the thirty page history essay.
Speaking of the story, I felt as though the two different stories merely complicated issues. It was interesting the way that the two stories played together, yet one of the stories was given much more focus than the other so that when we came back to it we were just like ‘oh yeah, I almost forgot about this’. In short, there was not a very good matchup between the two stories being told.
I also felt as though the characters were very one dimensional. Motives were really easy to work out and there was no real character development throughout. We were told what to think about people rather than being given the chance to form our own opinion. Even in the case of the main character there really wasn’t much to make him stand out.
Overall an interesting story but it did not live up to expectations.