Monday, May 31, 2010

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner

In terms of substance, there probably were a lot of underlying themes and what not, but I feel like this book lacked substance. I can't really put my finger to it, but I just felt like there was a sort of detachment throughout the whole novel - whether it was intentionally to mimic the numbness of the main character or not, I'm not sure.

However, it has been some time since I read it and since I'm writing this so it could just very well be that I've forgotten.

Perhaps I'll have to skim it again to refresh myself.

But basically seeing as how I can only remember parts of the plot and none of the meatier bits, I feel like it wasn't that good of a read. Perhaps I'm simply being too critical though.

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