Next up on the world book tour: True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey.
Sadly, as I write this, I realize this is one of those books I don't care to finish. Not that it doesn't have moments of brilliance, but it has lost the battle with my expectations. It starts off with a bang, and I thought, 'Wow, this is going to be a wild ride.' But for the last two hundred pages, I've been staring at the thickness, measuring the slog ahead. With a mere seventy five pages to go, I've given up.
The description of the painful birth of a nation and the quotidian struggles of cultivating the land and staying out of trouble in a near lawless society has worn me down. At least, I have the luxury of giving up, unlike the characters in the novel.
The other sad thing is that it is Saturday night, and I am writing a book review.
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