Customer Reviews

The Hole

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"... is impossible to relate, it can only be experienced or not experienced"

This book is one of the few rare books whose power is not created by the weight of the book when it drops on your head, but rather created through the experience that you go through when you read it. Like any such book, it is a richly layered enterprise, with many many different levels of meaning. With perhaps every word purposedly chosen. (down to the fictitious reviews from such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Brendan O'Malley)

And because of all these qualities, you will read and reread this book and find new perspectives each time you approach it anew.

I highly recommend this book to all!

This book reminded me of a Beatles song...the lyrics are so strange and sometimes disconnected, but when set to the music the song engulfs you with beauty, even if it doesn't make sense. The Hole lost me a few times at the outset, but as I kept reading, it became more and more beautiful...a tale of love and of losing, of finding yourself again, or at least what's left after you've lost someone wonderful.

I bought this book largely based on the stellar reviews I read here on Amazon. Honestly, I felt more than a little let down. The book is centered on a man who has lost the love of his life and is despised by his fellow citizens due to his unwillingness to sell his land for a new Stadium.

With the exception of some clever names for the main characters and a bizarre meeting with a football hero, the promised laughs were never delivered. If you are in the market for a few chuckles, I'd recommend you stear clear of this Hole

This book has been one of the unique books I have read in a while, and I really liked it. Good luck to the author.