North American readers care inordinately that fictional characters be likable. This preference is strange, given that few real people are thoroughly nice and that those few aren’t interesting. Surely what actually matters is that characters clear this vital hurdle: that they be interesting.
“The Dinner" has been a European sensation and an international best seller. But of course in the Netherlands, the vituperative Austrian Thomas Bernhard remains popular, whereas in the United States he is the acquired taste of a cultish few. The success of “The Dinner” depends, in part, on the carefully calibrated revelations of its unreliable and increasingly unsettling narrator, Paul Lohman. Whatever else he may be, likable he is not. There is a bracing nastiness to this book that grows ever more intense with the turning of its pages. It will not please those who seek the cozy, the redemptive or the uplifting. If you are such a reader, you may stop right here.
No I only watched the first two episodes. I will try to get up to date this weekend. I need to catch up. Did u watched the leaked GOT episodes?
I don't watch GOT. Tried to get into it when it first aired and it just didn't quite click with me. The Americans is the best show on television, any way.
I've read great reviews about this book but I feel like its plot would make for a great film. Maybe it's because I'm more of a movie enthusiast & not really into books like when I was younger. I just might buy it, any way.
1D have never been cute IMO Zayn was a hottie though, now it's just 4 confused, messy-looking, misguided white boys being thrown around by big business executives
I feel like reading is crucial to improve as an intellectual being. If you don't read some mind blowing literature at least once a month, you are falling behind those who do.
