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Sezgin Aktaş sezginaktas — I liked the first book so I bought the second.

Olivier Lalane olivierlalane — A fun & easy read, although I wouldn't characterize it as "brilliant" as many have. I think best qualified as alternate-history sci-fi, which I think is a label many would shy away from.

Mike Montgomery projktnine — I started by being underwhelmed by this very British book. The first hundred pages or so read slowly and, at times, awkwardly for me. Then, all of a sudden, I started to pick up the cadence of the writing and feel more curiosity and involvement. Although I did not end it with a complete sense of satisfaction I still feel my time with the story was worthwhile. It certainly had much to lend itself to me as a reader. The location: Northern England (Sheffield). As an inhabitant of the Rust Belt, I have always found a commonality with the North of England. They have shuttered mines. We have shuttered steel mills. The young people leave Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield for London and the South just like they flee Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit for Atlanta, Nashville or even Columbus. Those of us who stay construct a perverse pride in living in a place few would choose. As a teenager I became devoted to the acerbic gloom of the Manchester Sound and it spoke to me as a soundtrack to my own life along the shores of the aptly named Lake Erie. The time line: 1970s, 80s and early 90s. This being my childhood, my heyday and my launch into adulthood. As an egotistic reader I enjoy books with some characters who roughly share my age and generational experience. Some of the key plot elements occur during the summer of 1984 -- the summer I spent in England. And the very British quality of the story. I am an unabashed Anglophile. I did, however, find the book to be somewhat uneven. Philip Hensher created as cast of interesting characters. Some of them were very well drawn. I found his handling of the two married couples, Katherine and Malcolm Glover and Bernie and Alice Sellers to be poignant, real and meaningful. The Glovers and the Sellerses are neighbors on the same street in a Sheffield suburb who first meet on a rather dramatic day in the early 1970s, when Bernie and Alice move their family up from London so that he can take a new job with "the electricity" . After a rocky beginning they settle in as neighbors and so begins a lifetime of the accidental entanglement this situation confers. The depiction of the two marriages is, essentially, a love story based in real life. I took these couples to heart and easily bought into their relationships. Their children were a different matter. Daniel Glover, the eldest son of Malcolm and Katherine is a central character and much of the story is told through his point of view. This positioning renders him more sympathetic than his siblings and cohorts across the road. His sister, Jane is brittle and bitter and I wanted to know more about her personality disorders. Her story seemed sketchily rendered. Tim, the youngest, is a troubling and troubled person. The reader is invited into Tim's head and often, does not want to remain there. At least Tim's motivations and actions -- though somewhat implausible -- are explained a bit more. Sandra and Francis Sellers are also cast as extreme personalities. Francis seems to have been born with some of his interpersonal issues. Sandra's are hinted at from the beginning -- again with very little underlying rationale given -- and, after a long absence from the plot, her character is brought back into the story for a climactic scene. I found the drama interesting. But I found several of the characters to be either difficult to relate to or an interesting character sketch without enough background filled in to answer my questions about their motives and actions. Hensher is talented. I understand why he is one to look out for in further reading. I went into this book with all kinds of expectations due to the Booker imprimatur. Although the story did not always stand up to this heady literary connotation, it was a fine read with glimmers of transcendence. I'll look for more from this author.

Hytomi Chan hytomi — Compared to the previous League works, this was at times way overdone. While a lot of readers seem to lavish Moore with praise, in a way, this was reminiscent of the creative extension assignment I used to give my high school students when we read 1984 in class; that often had mixed results. It reminded me due to the various pastiches, collages, and various formats Moore employed, and all that had mixed results for my reading experience. Very well developed, yet at times it is clear Moore is going over the edge, so to say. I did an initial reading, and it is clear I will go back again and read it more closely. So in that sense, in that it lends itself to multiple readings, this is a very good work. It does help to have read the other two, and if you have done some other literary reading, it helps as well. In a way, this is very much like reading Watchmen. However, I think that, unlike Watchmen, Moore may have been trying a bit too hard with this one. The whole 3D thing at the end, while neat, did seem a bit excessive. It was the excess that made me give the three stars; I liked it. That's good enough. And I will still look forward to the next volume.