The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
My rating: 2/5 cats
booring. is that a review?? this was just very flat to me. i wasn’t offended by the subject matter – i could care less about the “scandalous” elements. but the writing was so clinical and thin. at one point, i blamed the translation, but c’mon – it’s not that hard to translate german to english (i can’t do it, of course, but it’s supposed to be one of the easiest translations) i have nothing helpful to say about this except i was bored bored bored. the characters were unappealing, the “twists” were ho-hum, and i thought it very dry. i don’t know what oprah was thinking…
