A Week in December

Okay, so it was clever. Quite readable (though I could definitely put it down frequently). But at the same time somehow quite annoying. As another reviewer commented, it's like Ben Elton without the jokes, and with an extra helping of smug on the top. I got bored of the rants about modern life - how people are disconnected from real life, how the education system is failing and the endless stuff about hedge funds and banking. Also, I couldn't find it in myself to like or care about the characters, I felt like they were more generalisations than anything. Perhaps this is what Faulks wanted, yet another comment on how self-centered and stereotypical we've all become. Add the re-occurring ‘mysterious' bicyclist and it adds up to quite a disappointing book.

Another GoodReads win! I love reading books I might not have purchased. And I enjoy sharing with others.

This has to be the very worst book I have ever read. Since I won this book, I continued to read it to the end so I could give it a fair review.
I struggled after getting less than one-third of the way into the story.

The characters were boring. Even the ending was boring. I kept falling asleep while reading the book, so I tried to read it during the day instead of at night. That didn't work either.

Many times throughout the book, it seemed like the author would go on a little journey without any meaning and not necessary to the story.
One felt almost like the author was writing a movie script instead of a book, and was telling the character exactly what to do.

How ironic - it took months to read about “A Week in December”.
I would not recommend this book to anyone.