megustaleer
22nd October 2005, 11:59 AM
Quote originally posted in 'Novels of the 21st Century' In this book Anita Shreve' exploits the situation in Northern Ireland without even bothering to find out anything about it. It's such a lazy American novel full of cliched assumptions about the British and the Irish. The characters are plot drivers, the writing is sloppy, gushy and superficial. Ugh! It's terrible.
It's not the greatest novel I've ever read, but I wouldn't call it 'terrible'.
It's an easy-reading page-turner, and if it doesn't answer any deep questions on N. Ireland, it does make the reader ponder about the duplicitous lives lived by the people who have extreme political aims.
It's not the greatest novel I've ever read, but I wouldn't call it 'terrible'.
It's an easy-reading page-turner, and if it doesn't answer any deep questions on N. Ireland, it does make the reader ponder about the duplicitous lives lived by the people who have extreme political aims.