A Conversation for The 2011 h2g2 Booker Prize
Half Blood Blues
Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post' Posted Sep 19, 2011
This one is not yet available in the US.
Half Blood Blues
Storm Posted Dec 29, 2011
This is the last book for me to review. I feel incomplete leaving it hanging. I did read it before the prize was announced and I liked it.
It felt familiar (I've been reading bookings about people persecuted by the Nazi's all my life). The writing style wasn't too challenging. Much of it was written as a memoir, a retired person looking back to their youth and the outcome was 'known'. This made it fairly slow paced, I wasn't rushing to find out what happened but enjoyed the unfolding of events.
The introduction of the musicians as a persecuted group gave a 'twist' to the familiar story. The protagonist was another of these disappointed men looking back at his place in events but he didn't annoy me as much as some of the other booker protagonists.
I don't think it should have won but I would recommend it.
Half Blood Blues
Z Posted Dec 29, 2011
This was the one bookI didn't actually mange to read 
But it's on my Kindle. I really should get around to reading it...
Actually I really should write up all the comments into an entry.
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