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Bezig met laden... Crocodile Soup (1998)door Julia Darling
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. My initial response to Crocodile Soup was "nice but not layered," Jeanette Winterson-lite, with all the trappings of "we're a dysfunctional family" novel. I liked the novel, but as I read I couldn't quite figure out why this book had been long-listed for the Orange Prize. Nevertheless, I kept on reading. In fact, I couldn't put the book down but read it in one sitting to the deep distress of my garden and my dogs. By the end, I figured out why the book made the Orange Prize long list. Don't worry - no spoilers here. Darling writes with wit and deftly blends pathos and humor without being heavy-handed in the process. If you liked Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum, you'll like this book as well. Four and a half thumbs up (if I had four and a half thumbs). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Narrated by the central heroine, Gert, a curator in a northern museum, this story is interwoven with flashbacks to her eccentric and often surreal childhood. She had a hopelessly vain mother, a father constantly away at his African crocodile farm and a twin brother who becomes a Buddhist monk. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The author is a good writer with an interesting, staccato-like style.
But it's a bit like eating popcorn when you're hungry. You take one bite, then another and another and each taste is good, but somehow it doesn't add up to be truly filling.
I simply didn't come to care about the characters, and the pattern of one quick sentence after another, however interesting in and of itself, didn't add up to a compelling story. ( )