NP: M. J. Hyland

[Cometman]

so, you would not recommend this one? (-;


--- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Has anyone read Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland?  It was short-listed
> for the 2006 Booker-Mann prize.  Someone gave me a copy and I had to
> put it down after 50 or so pages because it was so excruciatingly
> boring.  It purports to be getting into the mind of a 12-year-old
> boy, but it was stilted and unrealistic, the writing was no more than
> adequate, the plot was minimal and claustrophobic (I skimmed ahead)
> and the entire point of the book seemed to be the author's precious,
> minute observations which were definitely not those of her
> protagonist.
> 
> Have I ranted enough?
> 
> Laura
> 


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