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stormiclouds 's review for:
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
3.5 Stars
The Dinner is a tense story of the lengths parents will go to in order to protect their kids. The narration drew me in and it was immediately easy to see that Paul was a biased narrator. At times I even questioned if he was even a reliable narrator. Paul was not the only flawed character in this story. Practically every character was flawed in some way or other, but that only made The Dinner more realistic.
I enjoyed this story and even flew through it in a day, but I found myself skimming certain pages several times. There were these tangents the narrator would get on about past events that I felt were very unnecessary and didn't add any value to the overall story about what the children had done to get themselves in trouble.
If there had been fewer tangents, I definitely would have given this book a higher rating. I even had the thought that, depending on the way the movie adaptation was written, it would have been more enjoyable than the book. Especially if the movie cut out some of the flashbacks that seemed irrelevant to me.
The Dinner is a tense story of the lengths parents will go to in order to protect their kids. The narration drew me in and it was immediately easy to see that Paul was a biased narrator. At times I even questioned if he was even a reliable narrator. Paul was not the only flawed character in this story. Practically every character was flawed in some way or other, but that only made The Dinner more realistic.
I enjoyed this story and even flew through it in a day, but I found myself skimming certain pages several times. There were these tangents the narrator would get on about past events that I felt were very unnecessary and didn't add any value to the overall story about what the children had done to get themselves in trouble.
If there had been fewer tangents, I definitely would have given this book a higher rating. I even had the thought that, depending on the way the movie adaptation was written, it would have been more enjoyable than the book. Especially if the movie cut out some of the flashbacks that seemed irrelevant to me.