Well hello people - echo echo echo . It has been some time since I have "blogged" . Twitter has been somewhat easier and frustrating. Anyhoo, I have just completed "The Riders" by TimWinton and what the fuck! I must say I could not put the book down, I so wanted to find out what that bitch was up to but (spoiler alert- Jump to the asterick * . Did we ever? I mean I am so confused, and I would like to think I am not stupid and I am somewhat intuitive. I mean I love descriptive writing, but geeez! Pages and pages of - "It was cold where Scully went, and the great shifting weight of the earth pressed him from every angle, comforting in the dark. His limbs twisted into him, his tongue pressed against his palate and he felt the freezing weld of his eyelids against his face, the retraction of his balls, his nipples, his lungs." Are all great, except when they interfere with actual story. I want to know why the bitch did it?
I am also perplexed by the worlds hunger for bashing the basic. The person, experience etc etc. that to some, represents boring! It is no-bodies business, including that of the Labour party, to tell someone that its not OK to be happy with just a job and a family. To be happy to be the toilet cleaner with the basic wage, and tell them they should ask for more. If that person is happy, who are you to tell them they should want more. The already cleary have more than you, because they are happy.
Anyway, back to the book. I did not understand the ending either, is it some kind of metaphor? That the kid and the father were kindred spirits because they both saw things others did not see and the kid is lucky in that regard????? Too many questions, maybe I like the Disney endings. No, that's not it, I could take the sick, sad confrontation with the bitch, because humans are basically broken arseholes, so it doesn't surprise me. What I don't like, is no ending !!!
* This book had me picking it up at every spare moment, so if you like descriptive writing and a little suspense (not scary suspense), then this is your book, maybe you will get the ending. It was very nice to be taken back to the Greek Islands though, and he does this very well, Mr Winton. Hmmmm, I guess I would give it 6 out of 10, more if it hadn't pissed me off at the end!
You can check Tim out on his facebook account and countless other places when you google him. I have also read "Cloudstreet", which I did like and I am yet to review.
Regards - Me xx
No comments:
Post a Comment