Comments on: “The Dinner” by Herman Koch

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:40:14 +0000

This book was devastating! In a good way. I loved it.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:37:21 +0000

This sounds like a must read to me. I’ll add it to my ever-growing TBR pile. Love your review. Found you on the Saturday Review of Books.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:17:37 +0000

I loved it too. I love reading about unlikable people, because a good writer will give us some insight into their lives and their ways of thinking. Doesn’t always make them more likable, but that’s OK.

By: JamesReadsBooks

JamesReadsBooks — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:42:22 +0000

I loved this book. I guess not being on Good Reads is the right move for me. I do not understand this position so many people have taken of insisting that all people in books be good-hearted, likeable folks. I just react as though they want to take the sour out of sweet-and-sour sauce.

By: Buried In Print

Buried In Print — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:31:59 +0000

I’ll come back to read your thoughts on this one; it’s one of the ones in the group that I am now most keen on (although initally I hadn’t taken note of it at all) and find myself “saving” it in the queue.

By: girldetective

girldetective — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:47:33 +0000

Steph, I never read Kevin, though Post Birthday World is one of my favorite books ever. I found it very skillfully crafted and am interested (not intriuged, ha!) to see what the thoughtful, experienced readers of ToB think of it, given that they’re not so subject to making a hate-able narrator equal a hate-able book.

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:14:02 +0000

Interesting to hear your thoughts on this one. I have to admit that when this came out I wasn’t really all that interested in it, and I was using the low GR rating as an excuse to continue to not read it. Now that it’s in the ToBX, however, I feel like I should at least give it a shot. All I really know about it is that it is supposed to be a less good version of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (note: I have no idea if that is even an accurate summary/dismissal… no one seems to talk about the plot at all. I guess the mystery is supposed to be part of its allure?)