October 27th, 2006 - A Place in the Country
A Place in the Country by Peter H. Matson isn’t what I expected it to be. For starters, it’s a book about building a house rather than living in the country. For enders, the writing style was so …I don’t know what to call it… that I quit after only part of the first chapter. I had absolutely no interest in this guy’s story after the first page but I kept trying. It wasn’t worth it. Thumbing through now to write this, I notice that there aren’t any quotation marks. Maybe that’s what it is–I feel like I’m reading the guy’s mind and it’s boring and too single-person. Someone else might like it, I won’t go so far as I did with the other one I hated recently (second book), but it just wasn’t for me.