DNF: "The Black Book" by Lawrence Durrell
Monday, December 7th, 2009 10:33![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwake"This party of yours. An elaborate piece of self-gratification. You must always take it out of somebody, mustn't you? Life is one log revenge for your own shortcomings."
"You've been reading the Russians," I said. Nothing else. It was furiously annoying.
I found this book virtually unreadable despite some enjoyable flashes of wit, as in the quotation above. Every time I picked it up again, the page my bookmark was in looked unfamiliar and I had to re-read a couple of paragraphs in an attempt to re-orientate myself. I gave up around page 64, as I couldn't see that it was likely to improve.
"You've been reading the Russians," I said. Nothing else. It was furiously annoying.
I found this book virtually unreadable despite some enjoyable flashes of wit, as in the quotation above. Every time I picked it up again, the page my bookmark was in looked unfamiliar and I had to re-read a couple of paragraphs in an attempt to re-orientate myself. I gave up around page 64, as I couldn't see that it was likely to improve.
