Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe

I consider myself fairly intelligent.  I felt incredibly stupid in reading this. 

My son told me, years ago, that Mr. Sulkis (his Library Media Specialist) gave them a way to test if a book was the right level.  If you don't know more than 5 words on a page, the book is too hard for you. 

Well, this book was clearly too hard for me.

There were way too many words, not just words I didn't know I'm talking about now, just so.many.words. I know I'm sounding ridiculous, but it's the only way I can describe this writing.  Get. To. The. Point. Please.

I read about 70 pages before giving up.  And in those 70 pages I'm not even sure what's happening.

Perhaps it's words I don't know, perhaps it's the overuse of adjectives, perhaps it's being British language rather than America, perhaps it's not being alive in the 1950s, perhaps it's just a bad plot.

Either way, I'm giving up and picking something different for today.

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