Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova


★★☆ ☆ ☆

I read this book on the urging of two friends.  Our interests tend to be relatively similar, but this book has proven to be a major divergence from that pattern.

It is mind-numbingly slow, has pretty language in parts but tends toward the pedantic, and ultimately feels frustratingly unrewarding and even pointless.  I usually have ample words to describe the books I read, but this one leaves me at a loss.

I'm left scratching my head and wondering how this book garned so much popularity when it was first published almost five years ago.  Whatever allure this books holds for so many people, I'm missing it.

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