Never trust the blurbs on a book's dust jacket, that's my take-away after reading The Art of Fielding. The characters in this book are extremely cliched and two-dimensional and as a result, I couldn't care less what happens to them in the book. The plot is both unrealistic but also predictable and cliched. The dialogue....wow.....NOBODY in college talks like this. One character, Rick O'Shea, says "bleepity bleep bleep" instead of swearing and freshmen are referred to as "freshpersons" throughout the book and it gets very grating. Everything about the book is grating. I really don't understand how this one received almost unanimous critical acclaim
This is my first review ever on Amazon and I want to be able to express my thoughts on literature better so I figured, why not?
Some reviews have lamented the fact that Amsterdam won the Booker but the Booker has often rewarded mediocre works in order to make up for perceived snubs (Amsterdam for McEwan's Enduring Love), give life-time achievement awards (Jacobson's The Finkler Question) or scathing/sensational works (Adiga's The White Tiger). The most egregious offense was the awarding of the Booker to DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little, which if purchased, is nothing more than expensive toilet paper. Unfortunately, I bought this book before I was aware of the inconsistency of the… Read more
