Tami

I had to read this for my real life book club.

And, boy, was that hard work.

Yes, this was written brilliantly. And it did have a rich cast of many, many interesting and unique characters.

But. It was way too long and partially pretty boring.

Though a lot happened to and with Augie, basically nothing really came out of it.

I am not sure if I can express it right, but that was my feeling here.

It was supposed to be a novel about the development of Augie March. But for me he stayed quite unchanged through all his adventures.

I was a little disappointed, as this was supposed to be a masterpiece.

But to be honest it was a struggle for me to make it through the 800+ pages.