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A review by mentalfist
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
3.0
I like ice hockey because of its fast paced action.
This book, on the other hand, is slow and tedious and
scores a solid 7/10 on the depress-o-meter.
While depressing books can be profound, I struggle to find any other message than "rape is evil" in this one.
I'm not a fan of how repetition as a literary device is (ab)used - it feels as if the author dude got paid by the page and tries to go as wide as possible and stall for a couple hundred pages here and there to add length as a substitute for depth to the story.
The characters fall flat (maybe because I haven't read the previous books in the series?), some with repeatedly propagated shitty opinions (e.g. wind power bad, illegal wolf killings good) that make me wonder whether the author believes in them himself, or just considers them stereotypical of people living in small villages in the woods.
Lastly, the English version leaves me suspecting a bunch of nuances and expressions got lost in translation.
This book, on the other hand, is slow and tedious and
scores a solid 7/10 on the depress-o-meter.
While depressing books can be profound, I struggle to find any other message than "rape is evil" in this one.
I'm not a fan of how repetition as a literary device is (ab)used - it feels as if the author dude got paid by the page and tries to go as wide as possible and stall for a couple hundred pages here and there to add length as a substitute for depth to the story.
The characters fall flat (maybe because I haven't read the previous books in the series?), some with repeatedly propagated shitty opinions (e.g. wind power bad, illegal wolf killings good) that make me wonder whether the author believes in them himself, or just considers them stereotypical of people living in small villages in the woods.
Lastly, the English version leaves me suspecting a bunch of nuances and expressions got lost in translation.