Canada Book Reviews

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Excruciatingly Boring. I love to read and like all kinds of books, but this one was so boring, it was painful to read. Unfortunately, when I start a book, I can't quit reading no matter how bad it is. I always expect and hope that they will get better. This one did not. All I can say is I'm glad it's finally over.

Disappointing. This story is as flat and boring as its title country.

Canada. A compelling but ultimately slow, slow moving story. It took me Almost 2 months to get through it. It is so melancholy in feel that one needs to take great breaks from the reading of it. As three of the four main character fade into virtual oblivion by the end of the 1st quarter of the book,one expects the 4th one to be fully fleshed out after the loss of the 1st three. This was not apparent to me. Dell is still a mystery,even after reading his "story". I give this book a C+.

Life changes. In a moment, one’s life can do a 360. Told from the point of view of the gentler of two twins whose parents feel driven to rob a bank in North Dakota...what more need you hear?!

Canada. Interesting read. Bought it because I heard the author on NPR.

Loved This Book. This book is thought provoking and psychologically insightful. It is beautifully written and I couldn't put it down. If you like books where the characters are deeply portrayed, you will enjoy reading this book. I hope to read more by this talented author.

Canada. Sublime, beautifully written.

A Review. First I'll tell you about the problem I had with this book from the very beginning, and then about the other problems that came later. But if you don't understand that first problem, the big problem, then nothing else will make much sense. It starts with the first sentence, really. It's a great sentence, followed by many more great sentences. But they seem to me like sentences a fifteen year old boy might write. They do not sound like sentences a sixty-six year old man would write. At least, not one who spent forty years as a high school English teacher, like the character who is supposed to be telling the story. So that's the first problem, the big problem that I could never really leave behind. At least, not in the way that most of the characters in the novel leave their problems behind. Like when they cross a border and leave their problems on the other side so they don't have to deal with them again. (They just have new problems.) But that's one of my problems with this book - I told you I had more. I don't know people who behave like these people, who can just walk away, who don't become angry when they are abused, who don't act out, strike back or do something to somebody when somebody hurts them. Especially not fifteen year old kids. These characters don't seem real to me. Oh some do I guess, but those are the ones whose problems came with them across the border and still follow them around. Here's another problem (the last one I'm going to talk about). Nothing happens. For a long time anyway, at least in the first part until Richard Ford finally get to the bank robbery. Which he says he's going to tell us about in the first sentence but doesn't really, until a very long time after that. You should know that I really liked the second part of the book. A lot more stuff happens quicker than it did before. And that's all I have to say about it.

Canada. The most boring book I've read in many years.

A Great American Novel. Stunning, lyrical, finely wrought, and ultimately heartbreaking. This is truly one of the best novels of this or any other year. Evokes the best of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy in its depth of setting, mood and characters.

Too much thinking. A too long story told by a young boy as he experiences his rather strange life. He is living a rather normal life with parents who are at odds with each other and themselves and a twin sister. His father who struggles earning a living and is always scheming of new business ideas decides to rob a bank and on we go to what happens to this young man. Strange and interesting characters populate the book. We get a full life story from birth (what he hears from parents) to his retirement. His views of life , of what is happening, what he thinks others are thinking , applying lessons of what adults have told him. A most intriguing well written story but way too wordy and way too much thinking and philosophizing. 150-200 pages could have easily been cut from this novel and therefore made this book a better more interesting read.

Canada. Story could have been told in 30 pages!!!

Canada. Intriguing... amazing detail that painted many pictures in the mind. Definitely a "thinking" book...but also a work that requires empathy on the part of the reader. Also, this is a "re-reader." Worthy of more than one experience. Readers need not be in a hurry, because this novel is one that bears reflection during its journey.

Boring. This is a good book for criminal psychiatrists but too slow for a general reading. I didn't finish it after the first 200 pages.

Good Read. A little slow in parts, would have liked to follow characters a bit farther in adult life.

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