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A review by horsley123
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
4.0
This could have been a really good thriller - guerilla gardening outfit set up in a tech billionaire’s wilderness retreat, he discovers them, things start going wrong, suspicions are raised - and then the ending, goodness me that was bleak. On this level I really enjoyed the book. I could grasp the ecological issues being tackled and could identify the goodies and the baddies.
However for some reason the author decided that I needed to be lectured on environmental politics. Suddenly characters would go on and on, for pages, spouting off like earnest sixth formers telling their parents that they know nothing. I get enough of that at home - I am not really sure why it is there, as the plot deals with these issues in a far more entertaining and gripping fashion.
However for some reason the author decided that I needed to be lectured on environmental politics. Suddenly characters would go on and on, for pages, spouting off like earnest sixth formers telling their parents that they know nothing. I get enough of that at home - I am not really sure why it is there, as the plot deals with these issues in a far more entertaining and gripping fashion.