Octo's review
Black Swan Green: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Octo's review
Black Swan Green: A Novel by David Mitchell
Octo's review
rating:
bookshelves:
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recommended for: one and all
Ok, so this is more of a precedence review than anything else. If I never give 5 stars then 4 stars becomes 5 stars, right? And where does that leave 4 stars? I dunno. You can't be assigning ratings you can't define, can you? This all isn't helping...
Ugg... Anyway.
No, this book is not perfect. But, hey, neither is Joe Mamma, ok!?!
English kid growing up in 80s Thatcher-England in a small village somewhere north and west of London. Kid has problems, as all kids do, and does what he can to deal with them.
But what makes this book so good for me is the pinpointing of the important things in life. You know how when (really) unimportant things are going to hell in a handbasket and you sorta learn something 'important' because of the situation? And you know how it really doesn't matter to you at the time because the unimportant things are what really matter to you then? Yeah, this book sums it up.
So, what's important anyway? The stuff we call 'really' importan...more
Ugg... Anyway.
No, this book is not perfect. But, hey, neither is Joe Mamma, ok!?!
English kid growing up in 80s Thatcher-England in a small village somewhere north and west of London. Kid has problems, as all kids do, and does what he can to deal with them.
But what makes this book so good for me is the pinpointing of the important things in life. You know how when (really) unimportant things are going to hell in a handbasket and you sorta learn something 'important' because of the situation? And you know how it really doesn't matter to you at the time because the unimportant things are what really matter to you then? Yeah, this book sums it up.
So, what's important anyway? The stuff we call 'really' importan...more
