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Dissapointing for a Giller Prize Winner, Avril 13 2008
I finished Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay this past weekend. I decided to read this book because it won the Giller Prize in 2007. Did I like this book? Yes. Was it a great book? No. Did it deserve to win the Giller? Maybe. Would I recommend the book to someone else? Not sure.
The book though is most definitely what I would categorize as "Chick Lit". There's nothing wrong with Chick Lit, especially if you're a woman. But as a guy, obviously I don't read a lot of the particular genre.
What I liked most about the novel is the focus it gave to the CBC. As someone who has been interested in the inner workings of the Mother Corp, I thought Hay did a great job of explaining the politics behind the scenes. She also did a good job of explaining the loneliness that takes place in northern Canadian communities, and how the winter seasons can drag on and on and on.
So what didn't I like? Specifically I was not a fan of how Hay wrote about the First Nations. She tried to portray them as being "one" with the landscape and therefore deserved some type of special treatment by the Berger Commission looking in to the proposed oil and gas pipeline. Whatever. I would have enjoyed the book more if Hay had focused more on the story line and less on politics.
Read this book if you're interested in life in Northern Communities. Read this book if you like reading novels that have won the Giller. Don't read this book if you're expecting the great Canadian novel.
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slow starting...., Mai 20 2008
I found this book quite hard to get into. It took me a couple tries without getting too bored and giving up, to really get into it. Once I did, I found that the second half of the book was very well written and much more interesting. I wouldnt say this was an exciting read in any way. All in all, it was just another book I think I could have done without.
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Not what I hoped for, Mai 5 2009
I really wanted to love Late Nights on Air. I generally enjoy stories that take place in Canada, and always feel a sense of pride about the way that the country is portrayed. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that I really did enjoy about this book. Elizabeth Hay describes the great North as a true thing of beauty, and provides great insights into the lonely, isolated feeling of living in a Northern town.
However, I found the story to really drag on, especially in the first two-thirds, and I had to force myself to read on. The story does pick up for the last third, and I found myself enjoying the characters and the storyline more. But for the first two-thirds, I really wondered where Hay was going to go with the story.
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Nice try, but no prize., Fév 12 2008
I find it hard to believe that this book was considered Giller Prize material. On its very first page, it has a character utter a line of dialogue something like, "It was the parting shot of our erstwhile manager." Nobody speaks like that in real life, and the book is littered with stilted dialogue and poorly conceived metaphors. (Sample: The radio announce booth at night is a "dark tent that covered her up as she crossed the wide desert of late-night radio." (p. 82) Have you ever tried crossing a desert covered up in a tent?)
The book's middle section -- a description of a trip into the Barrens of Canada's north -- is absolutely magnificent, and almost makes up for its mediocre first half, and unforgiveably bad conclusion. (Sample dialogue, uttered over the phone by a woman trying to seduce an old friend she hasn't spoken to in a year: "Harry, when are you coming into my bed?")
Altogether, a good effort, though one hopes not the best book Canada had to offer in 2007.
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