so-soI‘m really not quite sure what I read. This is a strange novel that includes different timelines, mostly in the 1600s but also the 1990s, as well as a fairy tale retelling. We get this story mostly through the alternating perspectives of Jordan, a boy rescued from the Thames, and Dog Woman, the woman who rescues and raises him. Their stories include sex, violence, humor, and some quotable lines.
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pick#Reading1001 a novel set after the war at the start of the Troubles in Ireland. A decaying hotel owned by an eccentric English family provides a metaphor for collapse of English rule.
Newspaper stories are interspersed throughout the narrative to show what is happening outside the walls of the Majestic in the Irish countryside which provides an interesting insight into events for main characters as they are isolated in the hotel.
so-soI seem to feel much the same as many other Litsy reviewers about this book. There were descriptive parts I thoroughly enjoyed, like the section about riding a motorcycle on the salt flats, but overall it was a long listen that often lost my full attention. I‘m not sure what I was supposed to get from it, and it definitely jumped around confusingly at times.
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pick#Reading1001 at the outset John Self is a self obsessed man only interested in money, booze and sex (boring) but as things progress and the reader learns more John becomes a sympathetic character unbelievable as that might seem.
Look out for word play on character names. Author appearances and the clues to what is really going on.
so-so#Reading1001
I read it, I didn‘t hate it, I didn‘t get it and I have no intention of trying to read it again.
