Jonathan
Book seemed very disjointed and was hard to follow. Jumped around too much without providing enough details .
Interesting story that was drug out way to long in order to include all of Mr. King's “woke” talking points. Driving while black, abortion, cops not caring about blacks, COVID, vaccines, Trump, etc...
I don't know if I have ever experienced a book where race was brought up so continuously throughout the whole story. I think we all get it at this point, slavery and racism are bad. I'm not reading a book to be preached to. I just want to hear a good story.
If you're looking for “Woke North Bath” this is the book for you. Has all the liberal bullet points covered. White privilege, transgenderism, police reform,etc......What has happened in the last 5 or so years to make previously good writers unable to write a book without injecting their political beliefs into it?
If you like books with multiple interesting plots that arent fully developed and multiple mysteries that are never solved, then this is the book for you.
Merged review:
If you like books with multiple interesting plots that arent fully developed and multiple mysteries that are never solved, then this is the book for you.
Merged review:
If you like books with multiple interesting plots that arent fully developed and multiple mysteries that are never solved, then this is the book for you.
I consider myself to be a rather intelligent person. I am an engineer by trade and have taken multiple mathematics and physics courses. For the life of me, I couldn't follow any of the mathematics information presented for around half of this book. Unless the vast majority of readers of this book are some kind of advanced mathematical experts, I don't understand why you would give this book glowing 5-star reviews. How can you be so high on something when you literally can't understand the majority of the information being presented? I get it's Cormac Mccarthy and he's supposed to be some type of literary God, but this, along with The Passenger, comes off as some grand mathematics vanity novels. I don't care how “beautiful the prose is” or whatever. If you can't follow what's being discussed, how do you find it entertaining?
All the stories were pretty good. First two kind of felt like they just ended though without wrapping it up.
As a lot of people have said. The first third of the book was great. The last 2 thirds, I didn't care at all about. Just drug on too long and no character development.
The premise of this book was very intriguing. The delivery...not so much. Seemed like it focused more on protesting for rights than the actual strings themselves. So many questions were left unanswered. Also, the ability to swap strings or fake them entirely seems to be a pretty big plothole. The author clearly stated both were possible, so couldn't all the “short stringers” use either to get around the discrimination they were facing?
You could play woke bingo with this one. Patriarchy, latinx, Trump Bashing, etc.... And I understand the Author was subjected to abuse when she was younger, but you would think all men are abuser pigs after reading this book.
Also, does anyone else find it to be a tad bit of a plot hole that people are afraid to go grocery shopping because of the violence, yet hundreds, if not thousands gather together to watch these wrestling matches?
Very predictable. Also, being from Louisiana, I couldn't help but notice the glaring cultural errors. No one here has ever steamed a crawfish or used Ole Bay to season them...
I used to love Harry Bosch and look forward to each and every release. Now Connelly feels the need to inject his politics into his books for some unknown reason. Just tell a good story and leave it at that. Being lectured to is not my idea of enjoyment.
I don't care how good of a story you tell, if you continually inject your political beliefs into the narrative, it really turns me off as a reader. Especially when I do not subscribe to the political beliefs being preached....
Was as 5 star story, but I have to take away a star for the author injecting his political beliefs into the story. Authors should realize we read their work to get away from the nonstop political discourse and would like to continue to keep the two separated.
Characters seemed to be very immature. Also, I've never done it, but I dont believe mixing adderall, alcohol, and diet pills is going to make you black out. Pretty sure it would make your heart explode....
I like the majority of Stephen King's work; however, I don't know why the vast swath of authors I read have to voice their dislike of Trump repeatedly. I get it, yall don't like him. To make things worse, the timing in the story of the Trump hatred just literally makes no sense. The big unseen baddie is finally introduced and the characters chose that point in time to bash trump and give each other high fives about it? Cmon man!
Also, the book was longer and more drawn out than necessary....
Really lost interest for about the last two thirds of the book. Book was drastically longer than it needed to be.
Pretty good story overall. Could have done without the various “woke” references throughout.
I love a good twist, but I feel like this book had so many twists I needed a flow chart to keep up with everything. Overly complex and overly long.