Finished this short one this afternoon. I’ve read one of Burt’s other novels, Sophie, and was very pleased with that one. Less so with this one. While the story was interesting, I found it started slow and I had a hard time keeping everything straight with the many shifts in perspective. Now once you read the prologue of this one, you understand that the confusion was integral to the story, but nevertheless, it made reading through this a big tough at times. Luckily it only took 150 pages to tell the story so it wasn’t too difficult to keep plugging away. If I’d read this one first, I probably wouldn’t have went any further with his works, but Sophie was so much better that I’m glad I started there first. Read Sophie first, then come back to this if you like.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
The Hole – Guy Burt
Finished this short one this afternoon. I’ve read one of Burt’s other novels, Sophie, and was very pleased with that one. Less so with this one. While the story was interesting, I found it started slow and I had a hard time keeping everything straight with the many shifts in perspective. Now once you read the prologue of this one, you understand that the confusion was integral to the story, but nevertheless, it made reading through this a big tough at times. Luckily it only took 150 pages to tell the story so it wasn’t too difficult to keep plugging away. If I’d read this one first, I probably wouldn’t have went any further with his works, but Sophie was so much better that I’m glad I started there first. Read Sophie first, then come back to this if you like.
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