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I am late to join in this. I tried this years ago and gave up because it wasn't grabbing me, and I felt bored. I tried again as an audiobook because I've liked everything else I've read by this author, and I thought I should. Well, it went much better this time. The narrator was good, and she grabbed me this time. I also understood why it started slow. The author wants us to know the characters well before things (view spoiler) This was a hard read, but
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3.5 **
Backman goes pretty dark in this cynical and thorough assessment of a small forest town's obsession with hockey. It took a while for me to figure out that Backman is not all that much of a hockey fan and that the violence and chauvinism in the sport is being exposed as either a problem or perhaps the symptom of a deeper problem in society.
As a devoted fan of Backman's earlier feel-good pieces, I was a bit disappointed by this slow-moving and pedantic work. But then half-way through there is a cr ...more
As a devoted fan of Backman's earlier feel-good pieces, I was a bit disappointed by this slow-moving and pedantic work. But then half-way through there is a cr ...more
I read up to about 60 pages which I felt was fair. I thought was interesting to a point but struggled because I was bored.
Oct 30, 2017
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marked it as put-down-for-now
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