A Grand Waste Of Time

ahef1963: I thought this book was horrible. I don't enjoy anything scatalogical, which this novel had in spades.

ahef1963: I just wasn't interested. It's meticulously well-researched and well-written, but after a while all the detail got repetitive.

ahef1963: I've read this twice now, and still cannot understand why it is beloved by children. I found it so uninteresting.

ahef1963: I thought I'd try Danish literature that *wasn't* crime fiction. That was a bad idea.

ahef1963: Such a depressing book. I can get depressed all by myself without having to read about children raised in slums.

ahef1963: Just look at the title. Why did I read it? And these party-crashers don't meet anyone famous, not even once. If you're going to crash Hollywood parties, meet Brad Pitt et al and then write a book.

ahef1963: You'd think that a book about Regency England would be interesting. Then I fell asleep at page 27, and the book never recovered.

ahef1963: So boring.

ahef1963: A remaindered book, so shouldn't have been surprised it wasn't great. I was actually embarassed by the intimate scenes, so detailed and sloppily written were they.

ahef1963: I couldn't stand the amount of name-dropping in this book. Yes, we get it, you know everyone.

ahef1963: Dull. Dull. Dull.

ahef1963: Tiny little book - a rip-off, and such commonplace stories.

ahef1963: Spent ages reading this tale of recovery, only to discover afterwards that it was largely fabricated.

ahef1963: I could guess the "secret" that the protagonist is hiding after two chapters.

ahef1963: Terrible writing.

ahef1963: There was something disgusting about this book. I needed a shower to rinse it off me.

ahef1963: I found this book obscene, which is a charge I've never levelled at any book before.

ahef1963: I thought this would be funny, based on his other books. Spoiler: it wasn't.

ahef1963: A total rip-off of Jurassic Park.

ahef1963: If there were an award for pretentiousness, it would go to this awful novel.