Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

June 1, 2010 | By In Sport |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Erica Manfred on June 1st, 2010

    How did this interminable, boring book about Scandanavians forgodsakes who are about as emotional as bricks becomes a bestseller? If I knew the secret to that I’d write one. I’m an author, and if you read my book you’re gonna have a lot more fun I guarantee it. I wrote He’s History, You’re Not: Surviving Divorce After 40 and if Trond’s mom had read it she she wouldn’t have gotten so fat and depressed. She would have put on some makeup, gone to the gym, found a hottie, and moved to Italy where it’s a tad warmer. Seems like this affair thing happens everywhere and falling for a co-worker, especially if she’s in the resistance and is floating logs down a river, is universal. Was this guy having a midlife crisis or what. We never find out.

    As for the narrator, he’s about as appealing as an ice floe. He treats his daughter like dirt after she turns heaven and earth to track him down, all he can think about is his glorious past, before his father abandoned him. Well, I guess he’s just like his cold fish of a father after all.

    This book is suffering from what I call the John Updike syndrome. Description upon minute description of every little tree and every motion of every character. No stone is left undescribed. Actually the author could have described the dog better. He was the only character I really liked and all I found out about him was that he was a mutt. And that translation sucks. Considering everyone in Norway speaks English couldn’t they have found a better translator. I can’t believe the language in the original Norwegian was so tortured.

    I listened to the book on my MP3 player because my book club selected it. Why, I have no idea. I never would have finished it if I’d had to actually read it.

    Oh, please book club, pick something a bit more lively next time. How about Charlaine Harris. Or anything vampire. Hey, why not read my book. That goes for all the book clubs out there. I’ll even answer your questions. Email me. I promise a few laughs and no gloom and doom.

    Erica Manfred

    AskErica@aol.com

    author

    He’s History, You’re Not: Surviving Divorce After 40
    Rating: 2 / 5

  2. Book Club Facilitator on June 1st, 2010

    Wow! What is this book about? I had such high hopes given all the hype it has received. Boring, slow, and truly incoherent. Still wondering if the translation is to blame…
    Rating: 1 / 5

  3. Fuzzy Lizard on June 1st, 2010

    I really wanted to like this book, but it fell flat.

    I couldn’t get into it at all. Boring.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  4. Paulette R. Hunter on June 1st, 2010

    Slow. Jumps back and forth in time and you don’t know what is going on.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  5. BJ Knapp on June 1st, 2010

    I got 60 or so pages into it and realized that I had no idea what was going on. It’s hard to read, the sentences are quite long and cumbersome.
    Rating: 1 / 5

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