Book 30: Final review
Have you finished reading Lottery? If you finished it long ago (as I did), do you remember what you thought of the book? If the answer to either question "yes", give the book your final rating. What did you think? Did you like it? What did you think of the style, turn of events, characters?
***** = This was one of the best books I've ever read.
**** = It was a great book, I'd definitely recommend it.
*** = It was pretty good.
** = There were some parts that were OK, but overall not great.
* = Not great. At all.
0 = Didn't quite get around to this one.
I'd give this one 3.5 stars.
It was a really fast read; I think I polished it off on a Saturday afternoon. I enjoyed it, and would recommend it to someone looking for a feel-good read.
I did feel tense for a lot of the book; I kept waiting for the main character's family to do something really, really bad to him. So, I was glad that never happened.
I liked the voice of the main character, it reminded me of the The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Part of me feels like everything just got tied up a little to tidily at the end, but there's another part of me that really likes stories like that sometimes. It's the same part of me that goes to chick flicks. Everyone needs a feel-good story now and again, and it helps if it's well-written and enjoyable, which this one was.
My question for the author is: how does she write from the perspective of a slow person without feeling like she is being patronizing or insulting? Was that a fear as she was writing? How did she know when (or if) she "got it right?"
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Well, since it was my book pick I will repsond as well.
The thing that I liked best about the book was the underlying message that brains/smarts really don't make you happy, you make your own happiness. It sure makes you think that the simple life has a lot to offer. One of my favorite parts was how the most he would write a check for was simply determined by how many zeros he could easily fit. What a great criteria! Hey, the lottery is $170 million tomorrow. Maybe one of us could be lucky to write a sequel??
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