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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling. I picked this up in a sale for $1.49 out of curiosity. I'm not sure whether I'll finish it, but as I'm only a chapter or two in I'll give it a bit longer - we're just getting introduced to the characters at the moment.
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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I'd give The Casual Vacancy a good try before deciding to discard it. It took a while for me to get going, but the way all the separate strands and threads tied together in the end, and the character .. well, I'm not sure I can really call it character growth, but with so many of them, there was a certain point where I suddenly understood a previously hated character a bit better, enough to near-sympathise with them, and for me, those revelations and moments made the book very much worth reading.
But it is a bit slow going at first, especially with the multiple POV characters and plot threads that don't seem to be connected or related at first.
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I've finished The Casual Vacancy. Certainly not the kind of book I usually read. And not the kind of book I intend to look for in the future. Yapyap was right that it was worth finishing. I can't deny that it kept my attention, and that it was well written, and gets a deserved 4/5 from me. I suspect that someone who likes the genre (i.e. realistic fiction) would rate it even higher.
Next up:
The Prize in the Game by Jo Walton. The third (& last) in her series about an alternate magical dark ages Britain. (Arthurian, but not.)
I bought this one in May in an Amazon sale for £0.99.