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A review by krep___
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
Audiobook edition.
Couldn't finish it. Certainly very detailed, and the arts/academic scene in late 19th c. England was an interesting choice of setting, but there were too many characters doing too many unrelated things. Despite or because of all those characters, there was no one for me to care one way or the other about. One of the (presumably) main characters was a writer. A book about a writer always gets points taken off in my mind, as a failure of creativity, and yet that character's were the most interesting parts. The audiobook reader had a fine voice for all the women and children but made every single adult male character sound pompous and obnoxious; not sure if that was intentional or not. About 1/4 of the way through it (which would have been the complete length of many other books), I found it was not improving for me, so I gave up. The last book I didn't finish was 4-1/2 years and 200 books ago.
Couldn't finish it. Certainly very detailed, and the arts/academic scene in late 19th c. England was an interesting choice of setting, but there were too many characters doing too many unrelated things. Despite or because of all those characters, there was no one for me to care one way or the other about. One of the (presumably) main characters was a writer. A book about a writer always gets points taken off in my mind, as a failure of creativity, and yet that character's were the most interesting parts. The audiobook reader had a fine voice for all the women and children but made every single adult male character sound pompous and obnoxious; not sure if that was intentional or not. About 1/4 of the way through it (which would have been the complete length of many other books), I found it was not improving for me, so I gave up. The last book I didn't finish was 4-1/2 years and 200 books ago.