and will read Swim
directly after. What a great way to start 2013!
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What to make of this book?
ReplyDeleteFirst I think the tiger is relative for all the bad/perceived evil in a person or situation. Look at Luka. He was the epitomy of evil. Though claiming he could not help what he did, in life there are choices. I wonder why the apothecary did not finish him off. Or did he, or her? That was so vague.
This was a hard read, the deathless man going through the generations. And what happened to the doctor's son? No real explanation there. Lots of good story, but so disjointed. I don't know if that is the writers style, as I have not read any other works, but this was a slog to get through.
It showed the best and worst of human nature and what can happen with the merest of assumptions about people. The choices we make are like ripples in a lake, they expand farther than we can imagine.
Does that make sense?
I really expected so much more from this book after reading all of the praise on it. The author's writing style was just plain difficult to read, and I found myself consulting to the dictionary app on my iPhone several times. So on top of the story being disjointed, skipping forward and backward in time and from viewpoint to viewpoint in scenes, my reading was interrupted repeatedly.
ReplyDeleteAside from all of that, the deathless man and the grandfather's fascination with the tiger are what kept me reading. Although in the end, I'm really not sure what to make of it all. I do like what you said about the book showing the "best and worst of human nature" and the "ripples in a lake". So if I had to wrap it all up in a couple of statements, that is how I would leave it.
So many times I just wanted to put this book down. A 2 out of 5 stars at best.