Up all night to finish The Dinner

[gamma_x_orionis]

I've been up all night reading The Dinner by Herman Koch. I picked it up on a whim at the airport bookstore on my way back to Charlottetown, possibly because I was hungry at the time, or possibly because the absurdly fancy meals described in it reminded me of Hannibal.

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[josephinestone]

Gone Girl is very much a 'your loyalties change back and forth through the whole thing' story. Or I guess who is the bad guy would be another way to put it, but in the end you have a pretty solid 'bad guy'. I was surprised how much I loved Gone Girl. And it is shown to be a product of how the parents raised one of the characters. (I'm being vague, because if you do decide to read it I don't want to spoil it.)

I didn't know anything about it at all going in, so I'm not sure how I would have felt about it had I even known the basics. (Like I didn't even know it was a suspense.)

I have not read We Need To Talk About Kevin, because it sounded to me like a 'this kid was born evil' kind of thing, and I'm just not on board with that.

The book you're reading now sounds interesting though.

[gamma_x_orionis]

Gone Girl sounds interesting! I think I will have to read it.

We Need to Talk About Kevin is less "this kid was born evil" and more "this kid was born with an undiagnosed mental disorder that was exacerbated to the point of making him evil by his mother, who did think he was born evil". At least, that was my impression.