Three Bags Full
Registered by Dolphus of Luzern, Luzern Switzerland on 7/24/2006
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
I accidently bought the English edition of this book, thinking that it was originally published in that language, only to find out later that the book was written in German. I still read the English edition, so some of the things mentioned below might be a result of the translation rather than the author's work.
The plot started off with what looked like a promising idea. The story however fails to live up to that promise. For one thing I felt that the author was inconsistent when it came to questions about what the sheep would or would not know based on their upbringing.
More importantly, I was terribly challenged by the style, which only made it difficult to get into the story (my thoughts kept getting distracted, even when there did not seem a cause for the distraction), but I also regularly fell asleep after only a few pages. In this respect sheep might be the perfect protagonists, but I have my doubts about, whether this was the intention of the author.
In the end I gave up reading it, not because it is badly written, but because I seem unable to loose myself in the story.
The plot started off with what looked like a promising idea. The story however fails to live up to that promise. For one thing I felt that the author was inconsistent when it came to questions about what the sheep would or would not know based on their upbringing.
More importantly, I was terribly challenged by the style, which only made it difficult to get into the story (my thoughts kept getting distracted, even when there did not seem a cause for the distraction), but I also regularly fell asleep after only a few pages. In this respect sheep might be the perfect protagonists, but I have my doubts about, whether this was the intention of the author.
In the end I gave up reading it, not because it is badly written, but because I seem unable to loose myself in the story.
Coming to tonight's bookcrossing meeting in Zurich
As I am currently in the mood to read easy-to-be-read books, I took it with me at the Zurich Meetup.
Unlike Dolphus I finished the book. Overall, the book is ok, but not extraordinary. I do not know why it is a bestseller. Sometimes it is cute how the sheep think and make their deductions, but sometimes it is also a bit stupid.
Released 11 yrs ago (8/17/2012 UTC) at Frederiksberg, København Amt Denmark
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Forwarded to a reader, though not a bookcrosser