Wolf Hall Book Reviews

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Absolutely wonderful!. Love this book and Bring Up The Bodies!

Wolf Hall. Horrible reading. So glad to get to end. Must be better novels of the Tudors.

Fabulous. Richly told, beautifully envisioned, with a wholly different image of Cromwell than we are used to hearing. Thoroughly enjoyable. Ended with an opening for a sequel, can hardly wait.

Historical Fiction Like You Have Never Read Before. Set in England during the time of Henry VIII, this book is centered around Thomas Cromwell, a man who rose from nothing to become the architect of the unique, powerhouse England. As one review said, we know what happened during this period, but this story tells how it happened, and the "how" was nothing short of amazing. I could not put this book down. All the characters read as completely modern. Author Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell Trilogy will become as timeless as Shakespeare's stories, and this first book is well-deserving of the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Cromwell lives and breathes. Mantell writes with such flexibility and grace that one feels all the senses engaged and the characters come alive. To read Wolf Hall is to experience sixteenth century England in the most convincing and immediate way.

Have to go with unreadable. I dread opening this book each night, so I'm stopping. Use of pronouns awful. I can't get a clear picture of the story and it's dull.

The genius. Of connecting the small and the grand. The best in it's genre. So many stunning passages for a story we thought we knew. I miss Mr. Crumuel.

Unreadable. I’m a voracious reader, and almost never abandon a book I’ve started- but this one was making me miserable. The character development and plot were fine, it was the author’s style of writing dialogue without ever telling you who was speaking! It seriously drove me bonkers. A dense paragraph of conversation between two men, with only the occasional “he said”. No way of knowing who said what. Page after page after page like this. I give up. Instead I’ll google how this novel won a majority literary award. Maybe the critic’s reviews will be enlightening?

Wolf Hall. Brilliant. Unlike anything I've ever read. Fluid, haunting, witty, a great read.

Wolf Hall. I've never read historical fiction, yet Mantel's Wolf Hall had me from the start. Great writing! Dialogue on almost every page, characters that come alive and about whom we care. Thoroughly entertaining, humor, revulsion, pathos, sex, murder, torture, religion...the grimy, glory world of medieval England revealed at its best. Read it.

Wolf Hall. An excrucitingly difficult book to wade through.

Couldn’t finish. I have an insatiable appetite for reading and this book… it’s just so poorly put together. The story itself is good but the transitions between characters are terrible making the plot extremely challenging to follow because you never know which character is speaking. I’d have been seriously upset if I paid full price for this. I truly don’t get the hype about it being a great read

Wolf Hall. Superb

Wolf hall. So boring I had to stop reading.

Fantastic. Manuel's prose is absolutely beautiful, enough to justify its occasional thickness. Crafting a narrative of this magnitude with the full weight of history bearing down on you must be a Herculean task. As it is, the book is perfect, I can't recommend it enough.

awful awful awful. boring beyond belief...i love historical fiction but this is Unreadbable...I've read obsure history textbooks that were more exciting and well-written. Absolutely unbearable...

Great story. Confusing writing.. My friend really enjoyed Wolf Hall. The story was great, but I found it hard to follow when it changed from one scene to the next. Just so-so for me.

Wolf Hall. Very difficult to follow. Writing style awkward and stilted. The author certainly took great pains to malign Sir Thomas More, which I thought unnecessary. As a Teacher of British History for over 26 years, I was dismayed at the author's characterizations of several of the personages central to this period of history, artistic license notwithstanding. I will not bother with any sequel.

Unreadable. I gave this a try because it seemed like I would be an interesting story, and I was severely disappointed. Hillary Mantel certainly knows her history, but it does not make for a compelling or interesting book. In fact, her book is frequently difficult to read and thoroughly confusing. The main problem is a lack of clarity. I know that the book is historical fiction and that the names of the pele in it come from history, but not bothering to define which Thomas is talking to another Thomas makes the story very difficult to follow. In addition to this, characters oftentimes are referred to by their first name and then by their title later in the same sentence. This would not be a problem, except that titles are sometimes introduced this way, and it is not until you are several pages further along do you realize you are reading about the same person. This is really a shame because the story the author is trying to tell is an absolutely fascinating one, it is just that it is told incompetently. Honestly, a high school student would receive a failing grade for handing in a manuscript like 'Wolf Hall.'

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