The Dinner by Herman Koch

Oh no no no. It was just waste of time for me. Boring,long and the plot was just stupid! Sorry.....

I watch booktubers and one of the ones I watch, booksandquills, has just got this from a book fair... She briefly mentioned the idea (she'd already read it in dutch). And I thought it sounded really interesting, I might have to purchase.

Hi - we enjoyed it, though I can understand how it can feel a bit slow. We were invited to be part of the blog tour on it for its new launch at the end of April, so if you are interested here is the post tripfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/Novel-set-in-Amsterdam.html

I read this last year and loved it.
I do like a dysfunctional family.

The Middlesteins is good too.

I read last it Autumn and loved it, especially the husband/ wife dynamic, and couldn't make up my mind who was the most 'evil'character. interestingly the politician seemed to have the greatest integrity in the end. I think it would make an excellent film or play.

I also found the casual racism, and violence to the socially excluded chilling and well observed together with the use of mobile technology.I have a horrible feeling that aspect could be prescient.

Not selling the book as a bundle of laughs are we!

Bought it to read by the pool this week and it was so dull I had to abandon it a third of the way through

I bought this expecting to really enjoy it. Did not like it at all (although did finish it). Mind you, I was not that taken by the Slap either (which this has been compared to). In both cases I liked the premise but not the actual book.

I didn't enjoy it either, but was expecting to. I thought it might have worked better as a short story.

Just finished this book and really enjoyed it. Thought it was clever and unexpected.

yy we did it in our book club. I really enjoyed it too. Loved the development of the protagonist throughout the book and how your feelings for him did such an about turn.