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The Bird Room. Chris Killen (2009)

by Chris Killen(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1847672604 (ISBN13: 9781847672605)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Canongate Books

review 1: I had a momentary loss of self-control in a bookshop and had to have this after reading the first couple of jaw-droppingly good pages. And although the writing is still as tight and fast in the rest of the book, the feeling just wasn't the same.I don't know how to begin explaining this plot but then again, I rarely do in these reviews. You can get the gist of the themes of broken people telling lies and having sex from Amazon, if you really need to. People are cruel and mess up. We know this already, but Chris Killen's way of telling it is rather good, all the same, but perhaps a little unnecessary. I didn't need this book. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I have no idea how to explain this book to anyone and it's probably a bad idea to write a review of ... morea book when I'm still really not sure what I think of it. And I'm still not sure. I liked it, but I didn't love it and I did really expect to love it. I will read it again soon - it only took an hour or so - and then perhaps I'll get my head around it a little better. Not the plot, I mean, but the feeling.
review 2: NOTE: I actually gave this 3 1/2 starsI thought that maybe putting a little time between the end of this book and my review would give me more clarification on how I felt, but nope. I still think that it was just weird. Did I enjoy reading it? Yes! Did I LIKE it? Maybe yes, maybe no. Because really, it was just plain weird.My favorite thing about this book was that I absolutely adored the writing style. It was one of those books where you sort of feel like the main character is talking to you while at the same time feeling as if he doesn't care about you at all. It just sort of plods along, if that makes sense, and yet the story itself is completely non-linear. It goes back and forth and back and forth while at the same time slowly and succinctly moving forwards. In a way, this caught me off guard, and yet it was also a pleasant surprise. I love books that are written like this.This book is also extremely interesting in that you never actually get to know any of the characters, which could come from the fact that they never really get to know each other, and yet it is very much character driven. Who is Will, who is the other Will, who is Alice? None of this is really important, as they are only important characters inasmuch as they are important to the first Will. They are all so flawed and confused.While the style of this book makes it easy to read, the content does it. It's an intriguing look at the sex-lives of adults, at our perception of love and sex . It's an intimate look at relationships, and it's so real. While I didn't relate at all to the relationships in the Bird Room, as I didn't relate at all to the characters, the ideas presented through their relationships did make me think a little bit about the relationships in my life. And how real they may or may not be.Will (the first) disgusts me, and he absolutely deserves everything he gets. I would NOT deal well with having a person like him in my life. And yet, the book is narrated from his point of view, and I absolutely ate it up. He made me laugh, he made me think, and he almost made me sad while at the same time shunning him.So it's a good, well-written book, but it will not make you feel good. It might even depress you. And you may like it without actually liking it's content. It's GOOD while at the same time. . .leaving you unsure as to what exactly there was about it that you liked. less

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