For thirty bucks I want demons.
Strindberg's Star [Hardcover]
Jan Wallentin (Author), Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (May 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670023574
ISBN-13: 978-0670023578
Tonight after several days of part-time determined slow going I finished Strindberg's Star by Jan Wallentin. Perhaps in the Swedish it was lyrical, spellbinding, uplifting, but I doubt it. the book is slow, dreadfully slow, and at over four hundred pages horribly overwritten.
The story about a damaged Jewish Nazi symbologist, [yeah right], is iffy at best. It seems his Grandmother was experimented on by the Nazi's and as a child he had found the old ladies clutch of horrifying memorabilia.
So he becomes a doctor. After all what else is a young Jewish boy to do? This plot device seems inserted simply to give him access to the drugs that he self-medicates with throughout the novel and is quickly discarded.
Then dragged into a modern conspiracy, and one is not supposed to start counting on fingers at his age from this point on. Police abuse, at least two sets of plotters for ancient artifacts, escape in a custom train car engineered by a sister whose technical skills wax and wane strangely, and finally a confrontation at the underworld at the North Pole.
Yes it does sound rather like a bad knockoff of an Austin Powers movie, minus the comedy.
Give it a pass. Even if you find it, rather quickly I would think, on the remainder rack somewhere there are much better things to do with your time, four hundred and sixty-four pages worth.
Strindberg's Star [Hardcover]
Jan Wallentin (Author), Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (May 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670023574
ISBN-13: 978-0670023578
Tonight after several days of part-time determined slow going I finished Strindberg's Star by Jan Wallentin. Perhaps in the Swedish it was lyrical, spellbinding, uplifting, but I doubt it. the book is slow, dreadfully slow, and at over four hundred pages horribly overwritten.
The story about a damaged Jewish Nazi symbologist, [yeah right], is iffy at best. It seems his Grandmother was experimented on by the Nazi's and as a child he had found the old ladies clutch of horrifying memorabilia.
So he becomes a doctor. After all what else is a young Jewish boy to do? This plot device seems inserted simply to give him access to the drugs that he self-medicates with throughout the novel and is quickly discarded.
Then dragged into a modern conspiracy, and one is not supposed to start counting on fingers at his age from this point on. Police abuse, at least two sets of plotters for ancient artifacts, escape in a custom train car engineered by a sister whose technical skills wax and wane strangely, and finally a confrontation at the underworld at the North Pole.
Yes it does sound rather like a bad knockoff of an Austin Powers movie, minus the comedy.
Give it a pass. Even if you find it, rather quickly I would think, on the remainder rack somewhere there are much better things to do with your time, four hundred and sixty-four pages worth.
