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A review by irenevh
De ontdekking van de hemel by Harry Mulisch
1.0
Although I have a profound Respect for Mulisch for writing such a long book, I honestly hate my Dutch teachers for making me read this book.
Putting aside that the plot of this book slightly me upsets me as a religious person, I only actually enjoyed about a maximum of 20 pages of this book. Out of the freaking 900 and something.
The relationships between the characters in this book are pretty fucked up, and make me wonder what went on in the writers head.
Some might say this is the best Dutch book there is, I strongly disagree. I don't read a lot of Dutch literature (the ones I had to in high school made me either depressed or just really weirded out), but I cannot believe this book is the best we've got.
the story just takes too long, the ending is very strange and everything in this book is strange as hell. (SPOILER ALERT) I mean, how can I take a book seriously if it it is trying to make me believ that a drunken man got too close to figuring out that Angels made WWII happen, and so they throw a meteorite on him?!?!
I would not recommend this book to anyone, as i hated it profoundly and wasted an awful lot of time on this thick pile of paper.
Putting aside that the plot of this book slightly me upsets me as a religious person, I only actually enjoyed about a maximum of 20 pages of this book. Out of the freaking 900 and something.
The relationships between the characters in this book are pretty fucked up, and make me wonder what went on in the writers head.
Some might say this is the best Dutch book there is, I strongly disagree. I don't read a lot of Dutch literature (the ones I had to in high school made me either depressed or just really weirded out), but I cannot believe this book is the best we've got.
the story just takes too long, the ending is very strange and everything in this book is strange as hell. (SPOILER ALERT) I mean, how can I take a book seriously if it it is trying to make me believ that a drunken man got too close to figuring out that Angels made WWII happen, and so they throw a meteorite on him?!?!
I would not recommend this book to anyone, as i hated it profoundly and wasted an awful lot of time on this thick pile of paper.