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Review Date: 8/12/2009
Helpful Score: 1
The subject matter makes this one a little difficult to read at times, BUT the writer is so talented and his writing is so achingly beautiful and sincere that you don't mind. I really loved this book - I read it in one sitting (that never happens) because I just couldn't wait to see how it ended. The title perfectly captures the mood of the book and its story - how people contend with their own deep-rooted desires in their own way. Some give in, some withstand and some can't seem to move on. No one ever wants to truly believe that they themselves could be more alike than different from those we despise. A remarkable book, a remarkable author. Give this book a chance, it won't let you down.
Review Date: 9/3/2012
Helpful Score: 2
Borderliners is one of my favorite books. Peter Hoeg is extraordinarily gifted at creating characters that you become emotionally invested in. The book's central theme is "time" and within the story, you go back and forth between the main character as an adult and his time as a child in an experimental orphanage of sorts. The book is full of the observations about time as seen through the eyes of several children and the pain and horror they experience in their "home". This is a beautiful, tragic, hopeful, frightening look at life and the ebb and flow of time. How time changes us and we, in effect, can alter time. The prose flows across the pages, and will become a part of you. I read this one at least once a year. It is truly beautiful.
Review Date: 8/13/2009
Travers Scott is one of my favorite authors. He has a knack for drawing you into the worlds he creates on his pages. You grow to really care about the characters but he does this without being manipulative. Being a child of the 80's, this book really brings me back. I found myself rooting for the main character and feeling his frustration, uncertainty,loneliness and longing. This is a great book. If you are really feeling adverturous, give his other novel "One of these things is not like the other" a try. It is hands down my favorite book ever, although the subject matter might scare off some readers. I recommend him to anyone who asks for a good book by an author they might not have heard of.
Review Date: 8/13/2009
Helpful Score: 1
This is one of the strangest books I've ever read. But it is hands down my favorite book ever. You will be drawn in on the first page and won't be able to stop until you read the final sentence. This author has an uncanny knack for creating characters who are terribly flawed, in situations that are less than ideal in a world that (hopefully) most of us will never know - BUT - that won't matter at all to you. Like I said, it is strange with a capital S, but if you give it a chance, it won't disappoint.
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