Group Fiction Read - November 2015 - And the Mountains Echoed - NO SPOILERS ALLOWED

[Paul]

This discussion thread is now open. No spoilers on this one please

[Patricia]

Started reading this yesterday and don't want to put it down. So beautifully written. "Reading a good book" should be a legitimate excuse for missing work!

[Pink]

Will start this week...

[Paul]

I am probably not going to get to this until December

[Pink]

Paul wrote: "I am probably not going to get to this until December"

....which is only 6 days away now!!!!

[Pink]

I started this a week ago, but read about 10% and haven't picked it up again yet. I haven't really been reading anything as I've been super busy with work, but maybe this one just doesn't have the pull for me. I'll try again tomorrow and see how far I get.

[Annette]

I found this one just didn't quite live up to the incredibly high bar of both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Pink]

I'm still struggling on...it's okay, but not inspiring me.

[Jo]

Annette wrote: "I found this one just didn't quite live up to the incredibly high bar of both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns"

I entirely agree.

[Jan]

I tend to agree. The first two were for me so incredible that Echoed didn't quite reach that plane. I still think it an extraordinary work: amazing insight into human nature and I was completely absorbed in the story. It just didn't, again, for me, have quite the payoff in the denouement that his first two did.