![]() ![]() This is no Eden but a world of hunting parties and colonial ethnic cleansing. I should also add that as far as I got there were no female characters with a voice - I don't know if one appears later - all the story tellers were male, which also put me off. As the vessel journeys haplessly southwards, in Tasmania itself an Aboriginal named Peevay recounts his people’s struggle against the invading British, who prove as lethal in their good intentions as in their cruelty. I found myself putting off listening so eventually decided to abandon it. I wasn't sure how much the readers, although good, added to the sense of caricature and heavy handedness and it may be better read in print. The book seemed to be an attempt to fictionalise the colonial experience in New Zealand that was neither an interesting novel nor an absorbing piece of history. It was well written but I found the characters more of a caricature or representing a point of view, intellectual stance or type of experience than real multi-faceted people, I didn't feel involved with any of them and found their accounts laboured, long-winded and tedious. Passengers is a 2016 American science-fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Jon Spaihts and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. However that might be, I have abandoned this after struggling for more than 8 hours with it. ![]() It may be that having read other reviews and the fact that book has won the Whitbread prize raised my expectation too high. ![]()
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