What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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It was very well-written and absorbing. The characters were so well-drawn that I really felt I knew them. I didn't love the ending, but still loved the book overall.
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Beautifully written and a superb and minutely observed study of bereavement. 4/4*
A world is born again that never dies.
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The book was, overall, well written. However, the ending was missing the "bang" factor that contributes to a great story.
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Odran Yates as a 17-year old boy enters Clonliffe College to study to be a priest of the RC Church. What follows that momentous decision, and indeed what motivated that decision, is at the core of this book. Odran befriends another boy, Tom Cardle, who will later morph into one of Irelands notorious paedophile priests.
In this book John Boyne superbly captures the Ireland of the 1950/60's, a country bordering on theocracy, where the hirearchy overtly and covertly controlled everybody and Lord help anyone who crossed them. This is the world that allowed and facilitated the corruption that we witnessed being exposed in the last 20 years.
This is an incredibly angry book and vividly reflects the anger and frustration of so many in Ireland as the litany of abuse cases seems at time to be overwhelming and the weaving and diving of the hirearchy and Rome as they tried to protect the institution regardless of the impact on victims.
The ending is powerful as Tom Cardle, released from prison, faces down Odran, "... the whole conspiracy that everyone talks about, the one that goes to the top of the Church, well it goes to the bottom of it too, to the nobodies like you, to the fella that never even had a parish of his own and hides away from the world, afraid to be spotted." Reading that line reminded me of the saying .. "evil prospers when good men remain silent."
This is a powerful, soulsearching and brilliantly executed book. Highly recommended. 4/4*
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