This is the first work of fiction that I’ve read by the author – I had enjoyed a non-fiction book a while back, and thought since I liked the movie Big Fish I should check out the book.
The film is a bit different from the book, but I thought that having seen the movie it actually improved my feeling of the book. Although they were different they weren’t mutually exclusive.
The story in the book was a little more intimate and I enjoyed how it was written. The structure of the book is unconventional – and in this case I thought it worked out quite well given the storybook nature of the main character.
More details into the stories that are told here would have been welcome. After a long story about how the main character met and married his wife she sort of faded away in the rest of the book.
And although the ending was really good (as was the movie’s ending), I thought that the strings of the story weren’t tied off quite as much as I’d have liked.
But I did get to read a ton of jokes, both good and bad.
Next I am reading Where You Come From by Sasa Stanisic.
