Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Thomas Berryman Number |
| author | James Patterson |
| ISBN-10 | 1-784-75211-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-784-75211-8 |
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| date | 2019-Oct-09 |
The book is written in the voice of Ochs Jones, a newspaper journalist who covered the shooting of Jimmie Lee Horn. Jimmie Horn is, or better was, a black man being mayor and running for governor. Thoroughly investigating the shooting and the people involved, Ochs (supposedly) writes a book about it. It's as much the story of the shooting, as it is the story of collecting the information for the book, as it is the story of the assassin Thomas Berryman, as it is the story of Ochs Jones. Sounds complicated? Then it sounds right. The story jumps back and forth in time, halfway back again, fast forward, switches between Ochs Jones, Thomas Berryman, Jimmie Horn and a number of other people. It is confusing and hard to read, feels like bits and badly matching pieces wildly mixed together in an annoying order.
You definitely won't miss anything by not reading this book. There are tons of better books to pick up.
