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A review by booksamongstfriends
The Dinner by Herman Koch
1.0
There’s not much for me to say about this book.
I didn’t like it. I didn’t enjoy reading it. I think it tried so hard to be good and seem interesting, but the story kind of just drags on. You could skip to 50% of this book and still be sitting at the dinner table with nobody saying anything. The incident that occurred is supposed to be shocking, but everything after that wasn’t.
This book is aimed to draw focus around the lengths parents will go to and the moral dilemmas they face when it comes to protecting their children. But I think they could’ve introduced the incident a lot earlier and had more discussion about the fallout and everything that came after these revelations. It felt like we spent so much time trying to build up what was supposed to be suspense at this dinner table that you ultimately kind of just lose interest.
I didn’t like it. I didn’t enjoy reading it. I think it tried so hard to be good and seem interesting, but the story kind of just drags on. You could skip to 50% of this book and still be sitting at the dinner table with nobody saying anything. The incident that occurred is supposed to be shocking, but everything after that wasn’t.
This book is aimed to draw focus around the lengths parents will go to and the moral dilemmas they face when it comes to protecting their children. But I think they could’ve introduced the incident a lot earlier and had more discussion about the fallout and everything that came after these revelations. It felt like we spent so much time trying to build up what was supposed to be suspense at this dinner table that you ultimately kind of just lose interest.