Bart Seesing

I finished reading this book in two days. What to say?vIt grabbed me, and I could not put it down. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny, sometimes puzzling, but always making you want to turn to the next page/chapter until there is no more. Even the fact that I sometimes found the main character to be rather arrogant did not put me off this time (but then, I also like Taita from the Wilbur Smith novels....).

A thriller, yes! A spy novel, certainly! I'd recommend it to anyone!

If you like a light read, do not pick up this book.... It might, it will, it should disturb you.

We have come at a time where very few survivors are still around to tell their story. Meanwhile, it seems far enough away so that we can look at situations from the perspective of both parties involved. Flanagan's writing makes the horrors of the WW2 POW camps come closer than you might feel comfortable with. I put down the book regularly while reading, but I always picke it back up again. This book definitely deserved the Man Booker Prize, in my humble opinion

Well. My expectations were very high, as its predecessor was (is) one of my favorites for the last decade. It was a tough read. Because the main character, the underdog that rose to fame in book one, became a very unlikeable character. After the first thirty pages of book two, I started to hate him. And it took a hundred pages more before his journey of slef-discovery and self-repair started. It took a while before I got there.

And it was an amusing read after all. Made me dust off my Prince collection, amongst other things. But not as brilliant as Player One. And maybe I should accept that that would be an expectation that was impossible to fulfill.

Have I been waiting for this one.... I just love the writing style of the Century trilogy, where ordinary people in different parts of the world are part of the big events happening, showing their emotions, dilemmas and decisions. So I knew that I would start reading this one as soon as I got my hands on it.

And I was not disappointed. As good as its predecessors. A masterpiece, which I just could not put down. And it touched me more even then part 1 and 2, because Edge of Eternity covers events that happened during my lifetime. Fortunately I had a 10 hour transatlantic flight the day after I started reading, so it became an Edge of Eternity marathon. And now I am sad. Because it is a trilogy, and therefore completed. I might start rereading the whole trilogy.