So, in order to make the whole 'figuring out the cname' task a decent excursion actually worth the time I did that I am going to review all of these books.... and whatever ones I buy after this, which probably won't happen for awhile. So, the first was "The Casual Vacancy" by JK Rowling because I've been waiting and waiting, and waiting for that book the second it came out and I was waiting to unwrap and read it. Because I love Harry Potter and I think Rowling is a fantastic writer. So the sheer excitement and hype over this new, amazing JK Rowling novel was astounding. I went into this literary adventure with the best possible attitude, which is a fact you should remember before you read the rest of this review...
But this book bored the everloving shit out of me. Wow, I was bored to tears in the first two chapters and man, I tried to make it to the third but it was so incredibly dull that I couldn't even be motivated to read it while sitting on the toiler without any better books near by. Don't get me wrong, JK Rowling's writing is truly flawless. There is no flaw in her writing, and if I actually went through this book word by word I probably could find no error at all in the way she writes. She's just a brilliant writer in every possible way when it comes down to word choice, grammar, sentence structure- Rowling is the boss here. As I read this book I found her writing, skill-wise to be as amazing as it always was and always will be, perhaps even better in a technical sense than Harry Potter. You can really see where Rowling's word choice and style really enhances whatever she writes, and she's only improved over the years.
Still, you can be one of the best writers in the history of the english language and still write a boring book. This book is a bore to read. It is a chore to read and I feel bad for wasting my aunt's money for asking her to buy this book. I can see where the social issues come into practice. I can see the importance of the messages in this book. I can see where it does make a great social commentary. I know that it's an accurate portrayal of many issues in Britain and the Rowling truly does go out of her way to write well and to write about social issues with grace and without judgement. I get that, I really do appreciate that she would write a novel like this that goes to view those who are disadvantaged in not a favorable light, but in a light that is understanding and does not put them blame on them. I think that as a writer and as a person, she does take her own personal experience of living in poverty and uses that to create a very realistic portrayal. I am just so bored to death by it that I can't seem to care at all about it's message or the importance of it.
I'd give this book a 0/10 because you can write beautifully and still create a book that is unforgivably and inexcusably boring. the excellent writing in style does not always mean an excellent read. this was a terrible read and I found it to the surgical wisdom tooth extraction of novels. I mistakenly folded over the corner of one of the pages, and tragically, I can not regift it so it will sit on my shelf forever, being unfinished because finishing it would be a fruitless exercise in punishing myself because I have so many more books left to read.
