Jim's review
Radiant Days
by Michael A. FitzGerald (Goodreads author!)
Jim, thank you. So glad you 'got' the book. Means so much coming from you.
-m
Jim's review
Radiant Days by Michael A. FitzGerald (Goodreads author!)
Jim's review
rating:
recommended for: People who like surprises
I admit it: I thought I knew what the book held in store for me based on the first few pages. Boy was I wrong. Even worse, I made my assumption based on a kneejerk appraisal of the narrator, Anthony, a dot-com era ex-pat in Budapest. But as I continued reading the book kept getting darker and darker and the protagonist's behavior kept diverging from what I expected him to do. At one point I was so startled I let out a little shout, prompting my wife to ask me what was the matter. I didn't have an answer for her. For in addtition to great writing, memorable characters, hilarious dialogue, people doing terrible things, and wonderfully nunaced epxosition, Radiant Days is a blistering attack on the value system that has brought us to this point in our history and culture. A great, but disturbing, read.
Jim, thank you. So glad you 'got' the book. Means so much coming from you.
-m