Amnesia

I was over 200 pages into this read after skimming a fair bit, and thinking about DNF-ing, when I decided to check if it was just me; initially I felt vindicated on reading all the poor reviews on Goodreads, when I suddenly decided to read the good ones! Inspired by these more positive reviews I wen......more

Amnesia has had a rather sorry time of it in the world. Almost all the reviews are damning and its average rating is a woeful 2.82. Half way through I thought I might be able to launch a laudable defence. After all, Peter Carey is now 75 and we all know his best days as a novelist are behind him and......more

Halfway through Peter Carey’s new novel, “Amnesia,” I began to worry I was suffering from it. Who wrote this tedious mess? Where was that two-time Booker winner who gave us such spectacular novels as “Oscar and Lucinda” and “Jack Maggs”? Readers may have trouble remembering the jacket copy, too, which......more

I'm in the minority liking this book, and I completely understand why. I don't know a lot of people I would recommend it too, but I thought it was very good. This passage got me to pick up the book: The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel-at once dark, s......more