This book was a struggle to get through. I’ve found that I don’t like books that use absurdity or outrageous characters/behavior to hold your attention – and unfortunately there was a lot of that in this book.
I liked the idea of it at first, kind of a whodunnit in the forests of Poland with a group of translators struggling to figure things out. But it gets weird quickly, and it is full of people doing silly things which I guess was an effort to entertain the reader.
This was a long book, and towards the middle of it I started questioning if it was worth going on.
After finishing the book I can say now that it wasn’t.
Live and learn, I guess. Next I am reading Big Fish by Daniel Wallace.
