Brooklyn - Has anyone read the book ?

I finished reading it the other day. Boy what a slog, and it's only a short book! I have a new found appreciation for the film now. It's a bit of a minor miracle they did so well with such unpromising source material.

Among the problems I had with the book were that it is a dull story where not much actually happens. The writer fills up a lot of the book with the tedious details of every day mundane things. And Eilish is such a passive character. Things happen to her, she doesn't make things happen.

It's as though the author set out to write a book that was like the journal of a real and unexceptional person living their real and unexceptional life. If so hats off to him because he really hit the nail on the head!




The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.