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msjoanna 's review for:
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene, Monica Ali
Colin Firth. Amazing. Totally perfect narration of this book. I'd listen to him read anything at all really. And the writing was good in a technical sense. But I didn't like the characters, I didn't really feel sympathy for them or their choices, and I didn't much care about the angsty pseudo-religious discussions. While Greene is a far superior writer, I felt about this sort of the same way I felt about the [a:Paulo Coelho|566|Paulo Coelho|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1201840056p2/566.jpg] books that I've read: yes, there is some ethical/moral/religious issue that the author is struggling with and has written a novel to try to hit the reader over the head with it. Well and good, but without characters interesting enough to get me to care about the issue, I just end up focused on how little I like or care about the story. Then, despite the long philosophizing/moralizing, I walk away feeling like I wasted my energy on the book.