A review by jlmb
Amagansett by Mark Mills
1.0
Do you love fishing? I mean, really love it? Then this is the book for you! However, if you find 30+ pages of minute details about fishing boring, then this book is a hard pass. The beginning of this book was so unbelievably tedious that if I wasn't reading it for a book club, I would have DNF.
There were glimmers of a good book hiding amongst all the eye-wateringly dull bits. I started entertaining myself by reading it as if I were the editor, deciding what parts of the novel to cut. It's a nearly 400 page book that I would have edited down to a lean 200 pages. Then it would have been an entertaining taut mystery instead of a bloated one!
Conrad, the sexy brooding troubled fisherman, was such a cliche of Hemingway manliness that every time he appeared in the story I gritted my teeth. I preferred the character of Hollis, the big city cop pushed out of the city by corrupt cops and made to take a police job in small town Long Island. Wish he had been the only focus.
I am so happy and relieved this book is finally over and I can go read a book I will enjoy.
There were glimmers of a good book hiding amongst all the eye-wateringly dull bits. I started entertaining myself by reading it as if I were the editor, deciding what parts of the novel to cut. It's a nearly 400 page book that I would have edited down to a lean 200 pages. Then it would have been an entertaining taut mystery instead of a bloated one!
Conrad, the sexy brooding troubled fisherman, was such a cliche of Hemingway manliness that every time he appeared in the story I gritted my teeth. I preferred the character of Hollis, the big city cop pushed out of the city by corrupt cops and made to take a police job in small town Long Island. Wish he had been the only focus.
I am so happy and relieved this book is finally over and I can go read a book I will enjoy.