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Anybody read A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks?

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JannerBird · 09/11/2010 10:56

I am at the point of giving up on this book (which I hate to do) and wanted to ask if anybody here has read it?

I am on page 182 and I really don't feel that anything has happened, at all. Is it worth perservering with, does anything actually happen?

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piscesmoon · 09/11/2010 19:12

I loved Birdsong, one of my favourite books, and thoroughly enjoyed Engleby- but I had to force myself through 'A Week in December'.I didn't like all the part on money.

lalalonglegs · 09/11/2010 19:11

Don't let Birdsong fool you - it's the same as liking Annie Hall and thinking that Match Point or Cassandra's Dream would be worth a pop... Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Itsjustafleshwound · 09/11/2010 19:03

here

I have it on my growing list of books to read ... perhaps I shouldn't bother, but I did like Birdsong.

larrygrylls · 09/11/2010 18:59

One of the worst books that I have ever read. I have no idea why the reviewers were so kind to it.

Not a single one of the characters is remotely credible and, having worked in the City, the financial stuff is clearly wrong in parts. Not that that matters but why write pages and pages of it that most people will gloss over and those in the know will find holes in?

I think that Faulks read "Saturday", a similar and equally terrible book and thought "this is great, I can do something like this" and he did....

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JannerBird · 09/11/2010 11:58

Oh that seems like a pretty clear message - thank you all. I will place it in the 'charity' pile and move on.

Jajas I agree with you regarding Birdsong. I haven't read Engleby but have to say I would be less inclined to read any more Sebastian Faulks after this!

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Jajas · 09/11/2010 11:23

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londonartemis · 09/11/2010 11:22

That is one over rated author!! (in my - not very humble - opinion).
The only one I have enjoyed was BirdSong and with every book since, I have wondered like you, what is the point of persevering.

travellingwilbury · 09/11/2010 11:21

I have just finished reading this and I agree with lala , it is rubbish . I am yet to see the point of it .

lalalonglegs · 09/11/2010 11:05

Bin it - my book group read it and we all loathed it. Snobbish, sneering, implausible dross.