I'm befuddled and bemused by this review of Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson which has just appeared on Amazon.I actually submitted a review of the book myself yesterday noting that there weren't any.
I haven't submitted a review to them in ages, the novelty wore off after I wrote five that never appeared and my Kalooki Nights one hasn't appeared yet either.If it does the contrast couldn't be greater.
But read this one and please tell me how you can write a coherent review of a book you have given up on after 150 pages, somewhere along the line you have to say mea culpa and give the author the benefit of the doubt?
By all means pan it once you've finished it but not on the strength of a partial read. I have plenty of books that get the partial read treatment but I don't feel I can then, in all honesty, offer a valid review.
This one got the "unhelpful" vote from me, and if there had been a voting button that said "very unhelpful" it would have got that one too.
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