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A review by gingerliss
Capital by John Lanchester
3.0
Well that certainly took a while didn't it?
I may have rated this book higher if I hadn't read it so partially. I started it all the way at the beginning of the year and have had to read a ton of other books in between for uni.
What I loved about this book:
- The humour and the flow: It flowed very well and there were little laughs throughout.
- The Britishness: Being from England, but having lived abroad since I was 11, anything that reminds me of the homeland is very welcome and this book was full of little Britishisms so to speak.
- The array of interesting characters.
- The way a subject I normally wouldn't be so interested in, in this case economics, became a little more interesting through this novel.
What I thought was mehh:
- The ending was a little sudden and hugely predictable.
All in all a nice entertaining read which would have probably been a really quick read in other times and circumstances.
I may have rated this book higher if I hadn't read it so partially. I started it all the way at the beginning of the year and have had to read a ton of other books in between for uni.
What I loved about this book:
- The humour and the flow: It flowed very well and there were little laughs throughout.
- The Britishness: Being from England, but having lived abroad since I was 11, anything that reminds me of the homeland is very welcome and this book was full of little Britishisms so to speak.
- The array of interesting characters.
- The way a subject I normally wouldn't be so interested in, in this case economics, became a little more interesting through this novel.
What I thought was mehh:
- The ending was a little sudden and hugely predictable.
All in all a nice entertaining read which would have probably been a really quick read in other times and circumstances.