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A review by markgoodyer
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
3.0
I enjoy Flanagan’s writing, there is a depth and elegance to it that draws me in like few others, this alone saved this book for dipping below 3 stars in my humble, questionably educated opinion.
It started strong but I found it sprawled out into something a little too ridiculous and with great effort a conclusion was Frankensteined together from prior monologues.
It lost me about halfway through and although I got through the back end of the book felt like work then the sheer enjoyment I got from Flanagan’s other works.
Perhaps I was not in the right mind frame for this book however as there is a lot to unpack here but I feel at this point in time it wasn’t a cohesive read and I didn’t completely buy into the narrative. (And rightly so as it turns out!)
It started strong but I found it sprawled out into something a little too ridiculous and with great effort a conclusion was Frankensteined together from prior monologues.
It lost me about halfway through and although I got through the back end of the book felt like work then the sheer enjoyment I got from Flanagan’s other works.
Perhaps I was not in the right mind frame for this book however as there is a lot to unpack here but I feel at this point in time it wasn’t a cohesive read and I didn’t completely buy into the narrative. (And rightly so as it turns out!)