A review by clovemorris
The Nix, by Nathan Hill
3.0
The storyline of this book was so well done and will written. I have a few issues though:
1. So much complaining. I listened to the audiobook, so this may have been greatly influenced by the narrator's choices, but about a third of the way through the book, I was really hoping at least one character would inspire a new voice. I'm not typically bothered by cynicism, but for such a long book I was looking forward to something a little more dynamic.
2. Give your readers a little more credit and please stop explaining every single metaphor. If Hemingway said with 6 words what others would say with 60, Nathan Hill would first use the 60, then another 200 to make sure we understood exactly why the 60 were so well chosen.
3. Politically, this is incredibly one dimensional. Like the cynicism, this isn't usually a problem for a book, but it's a missed opportunity when the story is told by so many different people in different times. Again, for such a long book I was looking forward to a new dynamic by the end.
1. So much complaining. I listened to the audiobook, so this may have been greatly influenced by the narrator's choices, but about a third of the way through the book, I was really hoping at least one character would inspire a new voice. I'm not typically bothered by cynicism, but for such a long book I was looking forward to something a little more dynamic.
2. Give your readers a little more credit and please stop explaining every single metaphor. If Hemingway said with 6 words what others would say with 60, Nathan Hill would first use the 60, then another 200 to make sure we understood exactly why the 60 were so well chosen.
3. Politically, this is incredibly one dimensional. Like the cynicism, this isn't usually a problem for a book, but it's a missed opportunity when the story is told by so many different people in different times. Again, for such a long book I was looking forward to a new dynamic by the end.