Tuesday, November 15, 2005

The Sea

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I've finished reading The Sea by John Banville. If you've been keeping up, it's this year's Booker Prize winner. It was an oddly disturbing experience, finishing the book. It's very tantalizing the way Banville writes - extremely detailed, unforgiving in his prose that makes it an adventure to read. Very moving, and dare I say, shocking. It tells Max Morden's tale of loss, rememberance and reconciliation in a evocative, quietly reflective but entirely absorbing way.