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ktomkie 's review for:
Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
The book is honest and brave but the storyline is rather unresolved. The easy resolution of the crisis (ie the separation) is devastatingly oversimplified an ending for a book of this supposed caliber.
I had no attachment to Hans, which may be entirely personal. The book was well written with lovely language and heartfelt sentiment, but I was entirely disconnected as a reader. Ultimately this book flatlined for me and I just couldn't see what all the hype was about.
This is a novel about cricket. It draws analogies in the disparity of cricket in the USA to a foreigner in USA...hardly epiphanic. That is not that wily an observation and it hardly makes this book worthy of the praise it has received.
Honestly, sports metaphors are nothing more than cheap methods to wrangle a male audience. You make a character/story analogous to a sport and the male reviewers of the world praise the book to the hilts. It's a tawdry gimmick, it's been done in lit and cinema a thousand times. It's an overused trope.
I am altogether unimpressed--unless you're a serious cricket fan or a sports lit buff, don't waste your time on this novel.
I had no attachment to Hans, which may be entirely personal. The book was well written with lovely language and heartfelt sentiment, but I was entirely disconnected as a reader. Ultimately this book flatlined for me and I just couldn't see what all the hype was about.
This is a novel about cricket. It draws analogies in the disparity of cricket in the USA to a foreigner in USA...hardly epiphanic. That is not that wily an observation and it hardly makes this book worthy of the praise it has received.
Honestly, sports metaphors are nothing more than cheap methods to wrangle a male audience. You make a character/story analogous to a sport and the male reviewers of the world praise the book to the hilts. It's a tawdry gimmick, it's been done in lit and cinema a thousand times. It's an overused trope.
I am altogether unimpressed--unless you're a serious cricket fan or a sports lit buff, don't waste your time on this novel.