A review by sandiet
Love by Roddy Doyle

3.0

I've always wanted to read something by Roddy Doyle but I don't think this is the one I should have started with. The premise of the story is good, I just thought the execution would have been better. Two old friends meet up after a long separation and during the course of what is basically a pub crawl with the men getting drunker, cruder and louder these two beyond middle age men discuss their lives, wives, children and parents. Their story is presented in dialogue and I found that disconcerting but yet it could have worked if the book was shorter. I felt it repetitive and I guess what is quite possibly typical of male discussions it rambled on with the men getting side-tracked and never quite getting down to the meat of their talk till very near the end of the book. Also because this was a pre-release copy the formatting was off and to be honest that might have thrown me as well. (I would be interested to see if official release copy is formatted the same way).
All in all not a bad book and I think I'll try another one of Mr. Doyle's books to see if it's just this one that wasn't my cup of tea.
Thank you to NetGalley, Penguin Random House Canada for sending me an ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

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