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ocurtsinger 's review for:
The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje
I haven't read any of his other work, but I couldn't sink my teeth into this one--or, rather, Ondaatje's prose couldn't sink its teeth into me. His style is wonderful, and probably even stronger in other novels, but there was absolutely nothing here that intrigued me, nothing beckoning me to turn the pages, so I gave up after about 50 or so. As an autobiographical piece, it sounds like a fascinating experience, and as a novel it falls flat. When it tries to be both novel and memoir at the same time, it achieves nothing.