This is the first work of fiction that I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019t mutually exclusive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And although the ending was really good (as was the movie\u2019s ending), I thought that the strings of the story weren\u2019t tied off quite as much as I\u2019d have liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I did get to read a ton of jokes, both good and bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next I am reading Where You Come From by Sasa Stanisic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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