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The Secret Intensity Of Everday Life (2011)

by William Nicholson(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1569479569 (ISBN13: 9781569479568)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soho Press

review 1: I nearly stopped reading this book 5 times before page 100. Too many characters, too many names and too many boring lives in the English countryside. I cant understand why this book got such a high rating. I particularly fell asleep when the author rambled on about the character " Henry" and his lack of ambition. The main message seems to be that no one can ever be happy so we should just plod along with our ordinary lives.
review 2: While some parts were a bit explicit (I don't mind; I'm no prude), this managed at the same time to be sweet, funny, heart-breaking and philosophy-wracking. How did he manage that in a book I started out thinking "this is a bit silly and picaresque"? He did it though. The stories fit together beautifully and really hit me in a pai... morenfully good way. Henry and Laura had a particularly wonderful story. I like the idea of an omniscient reader's look into the secret thoughts of regular people. We all have thoughts we don't dare share, and it is nice to be reminded that,however trivial, other people have secrets too. I won't spoil it. If you read it, and your philosophical self is just as wracked (possibly by Ian's little speech near the end?), read Jonathan Livingston Seagull next. less

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