flollmanders 's review for:

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

3.0

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I've never read or seen The English Patient, so I had not much context going into The Cat's Table. I picked it up in a Dutch rail station as one of the few English books that looked tolerable. (Not a crime fan.) It's definitely the sort of book my mom reads first and then recommends to me, and she probably would have recommended this one. Well-written, some memorable quotations and moments, only perhaps a little more dramatic than I expected. I wish we could give half stars, because some of my three-stars mean "meh." This one is more honestly, "I liked it but but can't muster the enthusiasm of really liked it."