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Una Vita Da Eroe (2010)

by Roddy Doyle(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8860882060 (ISBN13: 9788860882066)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Guanda

series

The Last Roundup

review 1: I just ... I don't know. I truly loved the first book of this trilogy, was a little disappointed in the second, and just really felt myself struggling through this. I don't know if that's the book or me, though. There was definitely still plenty of Henry Smart to love (and be infuriated with), but the part of Ireland's political strife that actually occurred during my lifetime was harder for me to understand in this context than the 1916 events of "A Star Called Henry." Maybe Doyle assumed his readers would have more basic awareness of the situation (he definitely assumed they knew Henry's whole backstory; I don't know how anyone reading this story on its own would keep up). There is still the undeniable charm and dead-on ear that Doyle has brought to every work I've read,... more but the darker, dreamlike, disjointed turns sometimes lost me.
review 2: roddy Doyle has written some great books that I would recommend to anyone, but this isn't one of them. I read the two previous novels in this trilogy and the first one, a Star Called Henry, was great. This final instalment is interesting, and I did feel, once I had decided to work at reading this, that I could identify with the main character. But although there were some really nice sections and the language, inlaces, was great and well up to Roddy Doyle's normal standard, on the whole it was a disappointing book. It just lacked pace and I felt like I hard to work too hard to sustain my interest, especially during the John Ford section, which takes up most of the first half of the book. But if you have read the earlier novels you will probably feel that you need to read this too. less

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