Milkman

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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman But when first brother in law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes interesting The last thing she ever wanted to be To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences. Read Milkman By Anna Burns – kino-fada.fr Deserved Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018This year s Man Booker longlist contains plenty of surprises, but I suspect that none will bewelcome than this one I will try to keep this review fairly short, so for adetailed one I recommend this one from Gumble s Yard setting is based on Belfast at the height of the Troubles in the late 70s, but this is never explicitly stated, in fact very few proper names appear in this book It is written Deserved Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018This year s Man Booker longlist contains plenty of surprises, but I suspect that none will bewelcome than this one I will try to keep this review fairly short, so for adetailed one I recommend this one from Gumble s Yard setting is based on Belfast at the height of the Troubles in the late 70s, but this is never explicitly stated, in fact very few proper names appear in this book It is written in long dense paragraphs and very long chapters, which makes finding break points quite chall...Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize Always the standout book on the longlist in my view although see below this is not for everyone and the best winner for years although again purely in my view The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died He had been shot by one of the state hit squads and I did not care about the shooting of this man Others did care though, and some were those who, in the parlance Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize Always the standout book on the longl... Man Booker 2018 WINNER So well deserved congrats, Anna BurnsI loved Milkman, but it s so painfully niche I can t think of anyone I d personally recommend it to Set in an unnamed city that s probably Belfast in the 1970s, Milkman follows an unnamed narrator who s believed by her community to be having an affair with a man known only as the milkman, who isn t actually a milkman Told in stream of consciousness prose and set against the backdrop of the Troubles, Milkman doesn t offer much o Man Booker 2018 WINNER So well deserved congrats, Anna BurnsI loved Milkman, but it s so painfully niche I can t think of anyone I d personally recommend it to Set in an unnamed city that s probably Belfast in the 1970s, Milkman follows an unnamed narrator who s believed by her community to be having an affair with a man known only as the milkman, who isn t actually a milkm...Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 sigh This isn t a bad book, but I didn t enjoy reading it at all which confronts me with the challenge to do the novel justice while also explaining why it didn t appeal to me Challenge accepted Milkman tells the story of an 18 year old woman in Belfast during the Troubles While she is trying to stay out of the turmoil around her, even going as far as reading while she is walking the city, this attempt is obviously doomed In times of a crisis of this m Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 sigh This isn t a bad book, but I didn t enjoy reading it at all which confronts me with the challenge to do the novel justice while also explaining why it didn t appeal to me Challenge accepted Milkman tells the story of an 18 year old woman in Belfast during the Troubles While she is trying to stay out of the turmoil around her, even going as far as reading while she is walking the city, this attempt is obviously d...Well, that was unpleasant I usually can read a 350 page novel in two to three days this took me a tortuous ten, as on several occasions I looked at the book and just had no interest in reading any of it I was sorely tempted to DNF it, but as a Booker completest, I rallied myself to get through I m going to disappoint some by not giving this one of my infamous 2 star takedown reviews, but I am going to have to pass, since this book not only sapped my creative juices, but at several poin Well, that was unpleasant I usually can read a 350 page novel in two to three days this took me a tortuous ten, as on several occasions I looked at the book and just had no interest in reading any of it I was sorely tempted to DNF it, but as a Booker completest, I rallied myself to get through I m going to disappoint some by not giving this one of my infamous 2 star takedown reviews, but I am going to have to pass, since this book not only sapped my creative juices, but at several points, my will to live.Others have bizarrely mentioned how funny this is, but I can only assume they find cancer, boils, and diarrhea equally hilarious The non plot barely contains enough incidents to hang a very short story upon, and Burns going on and on and on about virtually nothing and then repeating herself once again for page after page after page with no paragraph breaks, made me think sh...I heard that you re on Booker LonglistThat you re a strong favourite, solid nowI heard, that you re a dystopiaI guess you d gave me things Like others did to meGood book, why sentences so longEither finish the sentenceOr start a paragraphI hate to DNF you like this, early unexpected but ICouldn t keep reading, couldn t fight itI had hoped you see my faceAnd that you let me go, tell me it s overNevermind, I ll go find some book like youI wish nothing but the best for youForget me, I will forget y I heard that you...Milkmanis one of those books where your feelings about the narrative voice will make or break the reading experience Set during the Troubles in Belfast in the 1970s, Milkman references that conflict obliquely, euphemistically, and occasionally directly The real substance of Milkman however is the psychological effects of living within such conflict the double speak, studied nonchalance, vigilance and effort required to stay under the radar enough to get by It s also about the ways in whiMilkmanis one of those books where your feelings about the narrative voice will make or break the reading experience Set during the Troubles in Belfast in the 1970s, Milkman references that conflict obliquely, euphemistically, and occasionally directly The real substance of Milkman however is the psychological effects of living within such conflict the double speak, studied nonchalance, vigilance and effort required to stay under the radar enough to get by It s also about the ways in which power structures necessitated by and resulting from the political turmoil can be manipulated and exploited for other, non political but still nefarious ends This was ...I don t even know if I should say I read this book I read the first 20% and set it aside, confused as to what I was reading I d heard it was set in Ireland during The Troubles but it feltlike a dystopian novel where everyone is just a nickname archetype category and the women are powerless I picked the novel back up the week the Man Booker shortlist was going to be announced and pushed through for another 10%, and this included a horri...Winner rightfully so of the 2018 Man Booker Prize But it was a gametoy soldiers on toy battlefields,toy trains in the attic, hard men in their teens, hard men in their twenties, hard men in their thirties, in their forties, with the mentality being toys even if it was far from toys these men were playin...I went on a journey with this book I read some very positive comments about it, so I decided to leave it until the end of my Man Booker long list reading with the exception of Sally Rooney s book which is not published for a few weeks yet I wanted to finish on a high Then, when I started it, I felt disappointed I didn t like the way the book was written, I struggled to engage with the story At one point, I thought it was going to be my one and only DNF of the long list.Then, at about one I went on a journey with this book I read some very positive comments about it, so I decided to leave it until the end of my Man Booker long list reading with the exception of Sally Rooney s book which is not published for a few weeks yet I wanted to finish on a high Then, when I started it, I felt disappointed I didn t like the way the book was written, I struggled to engage with the story At one point, I thought it was going to be my one and only DNF of the long list.Then, at about one third in, something clicked I...

Milkman
  • English
  • 12 October 2017
  • ebook
  • 352 pages
  • 0571338763
  • Anna Burns
  • Milkman