Kevin P. Keating
Författare till The Captive Condition: A Novel
Verk av Kevin P. Keating
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- Cleveland, USA,
- Yrken
- lecturer
boilermaker - Kort biografi
- After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, Kevin P. Keating became a professor of English and began teaching at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, and Lorain County Community College. His essays and stories have appeared in more that fifty literary journals, and his first novel, The Natural Order of Things, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in Cleveland.
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Priser
Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 55
- Popularitet
- #295,340
- Betyg
- 2.9
- Recensioner
- 4
- ISBN
- 8
I admit that I took I break from the book after I had read 60% and read some other books and then I returned to the book to see if the book felt better to read. And, it was still wordy, but it was a bit better because before it felt that nothing really happened to the story. I could read pages after pages, but the story felt that it didn't move forward. But after my break, at least, the story felt a bit better, things started to happen at least.
My native language isn't English, but I usually have no problem with reading English books. With this one was I happy that it was an ebook so that I could easily look up words that I didn't know and I'm used to it. A good way to learn new words, but I just don't like books that feel like the author is really trying to use as many difficult and less known words as possible. I don't even like to read that kind of books in Swedish.
I can't say I truly enjoyed reading this book. But it had its moments. I liked the story about the twins and Morgan and Lorelai. The professor, Martin Kingsley, and Emily Ryan's story was just not that interesting and that made everything involved Edmund Campion just as uninteresting to read. I like the background of the town as explained in the beginning of the book. But alas this was just not a book for me.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for a blog tour at TLC Book Tours.… (mer)