The Bee Sting Book Reviews

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Nothing is as it seems. Paul Murrray! What! Wait! Now I know why the book club was excited to discuss the ending. I’m reminded a bit of David F Wallace too from this novel.

Just…WOW. Impeccable.

Tedious - why is this Booker Prize listed?. This is a really tedious book. It could have been half the length. The characters are all so unlikable and unsympathetic - both their interior lives and their exterior lives.

A page turner.. The Bee Sting is as juicy, emotional, and saturated as a 1950s technicolor melodrama by Douglas Sirk, yet with a solid moral and literary core. You go deep into the minds and lives of the Barneses—Dickie the dad, Imelda the mom, Cass the daughter, and PJ the son. They’re a prosperous Irish family but one that’s increasingly in trouble, individually and collectively. The yearnings and terrors of each character come vividly to life. The prose is masterful, especially when Imelda holds center stage. Here the author dispenses with most punctuation, but you are never at sea, just deep in her mind (I would almost say her soul). Imelda’s parts put me in mind of the famously unpunctuated ending of Ulysses (And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes . . . .) but it is in no way a hard read. It’s a miracle that so much heart and nuance and almost-but-not-quite florid prose can sink its teeth into you do deeply. The normally punctuated parts convey complicated thoughts and half thoughts as gracefully as a skater doing easy triple lutzes. If I were boarding a transatlantic flight this is the novel I’d want to have with me. I suspect that only an Irish writer could quite pull this off.

Surprisingly Good!. Initially thought it was a bit juvenile after reading the first section - actually gave up and gave it 2 stars. But came back later and it turned out to be quite a gripping page turner. A somewhat sad and at times sordid saga of a family, that has quite a few surprises in store for the reader, and is clearly a contender for the Prize.

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