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I started out genuinely excited to read this book. The setup for the mystery was intriguing, but any interest I had dissipated by the third chapter. The dialogue is so stilted that I finally decided to give up and look for a synopsis online to save myself the agony of reading anymore of the patter that seems to be written by a robot trying to approximate actual human communication with some horrifically misguided algorithm. Annoyingly the plot is interesting, and I kept thinking that another author could have really made the idea into a great book. I hate to leave something half-read, but there wasn't a single character that could convince me to carry on. Because it took so long to find a full summary (that didn't merely hint at the ending), I feel obligated to direct others to the one I finally found so that no one else has to waste his or her time hunting it down (or worse yet, reading the entire 640 pages of the book itself). Amazon doesn't allow external links in reviews, so to find a concise plot search: bookrags + summary + Harry Quebert on Google.


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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair A Novel Joel Dicker Books Reviews

This started off as a 5 star page turner for me. I was about to e-mail enthusiastic recommendations to friends when it rapidly descended through the stars to end up a one star by the end. At one point I was so concerned about my reaction to this book that I went to the NY Times looking for confirmation that this is a truly awful book, but no, the NY Times loved it. However, Chelsea Cain, the reviewer did note that it was "impeccably translated" from the French and that may be part of the problem, because the absurdity of the dialogue was a large part of my problem. No one talks the way these people talk, and sometimes dialogue shouldn't be "impeccably" translated. Unfortunately dialogue carries much of the book.
I completely agree with the reviewer who complained that no thirty year old acts like Harry Quebert and that he acts more like fifteen, the age of his female love interest, In fact NO ONE acts like Harry Quebert or like the policeman who enlists the help of the protagonist to help him solve the murder of Harry's girl friend. Seriously??? A policeman takes a twenty-six year old novelist as his partner and shares the whole case with him??
This was really a dreadful book. I can't understand the glowing reviews. I tried to take it as a spoof on crime books and it didn't work that way either. I would definitely give this one a pass. The only reason I gave it two stars is because I thought the beginning was promising, otherwise the last two thirds were a one star. Also I thought the basic plot, with different character development, could have been good in the hands of a competent writer with a competent editor. That just didn't happen here.
This "novel" is a total waste of time. Poorly written is a positive here; the plot is sophomoric;the characters are out of the Sunday comics. This "thriller" was the "Talk of Europe" last year? In what language? The reviews pasted all over the front, inside and back covers are either "bought" by the publisher for doing past "favors" (free trips, dinners, opera, etc.) or? Are totally made up and somehow got printed. And if I may make a comment on the "art work" of the cover you must be kidding? Worst ever.
If you enjoy a good European thriller than go to almost anything by Jo Nesbo, or the late Steig Larrson trilogy--and never let it said he was a pedestrian writer. Larrson was a GREAT storyteller.
The "Joel Dicker" who wrote the "Harry Quebert" novel is pedestrian!
What a fiasco!
The prose is poor and the dialogues soap-opera like (at least in English).
The plot is unconvincing and full of loopholes.
I ended up hating all the characters in the book, and myself for reading it until the end.
"Quebert Affair" is generally competently written, at times compelling, and occasionally touching. It is rarely exciting and is overlong and full of red-herrings. I personally am not fond of frequent skips in time (forward and backward), setting and perspective, which is basically how the book is constructed. New information is often introduced, followed by a flashback with more detail. This really pads out the book and is occasionally annoying.

The book has two main characters the narrator and his mentor Harry Quebert. I didn't find either of them particularly sympathetic or even realistic. The loss of Harry Quebert's "soul mate", the murdered Nola, is very sad of course, but returning to his grief over and over becomes, at least for me, tedious. Nola herself is very sketchy, and is the subject of all sorts of changes, doubts and psychological revisions

Perhaps it is the translation, but I found the dialogue naive and unconvincing, the writing "advice" usually superficial, and the sexual references basically self-conscious, ambiguous (especially with respect to Harry and Nola), definitely unexciting, and actually quite old-fashioned.

The frequent plot twists ("red herrings" mentioned above) are clever at first, but after a while I simply ignored any hints the author offered since it was clear they were not to be trusted, since new information was almost certainly to be introduced rendering them "inoperative".

Nevertheless, the book is a pretty good summertime distraction, which is, after all, why I purchased it ( edition). I don't think it will become a classic.
I started out genuinely excited to read this book. The setup for the mystery was intriguing, but any interest I had dissipated by the third chapter. The dialogue is so stilted that I finally decided to give up and look for a synopsis online to save myself the agony of reading anymore of the patter that seems to be written by a robot trying to approximate actual human communication with some horrifically misguided algorithm. Annoyingly the plot is interesting, and I kept thinking that another author could have really made the idea into a great book. I hate to leave something half-read, but there wasn't a single character that could convince me to carry on. Because it took so long to find a full summary (that didn't merely hint at the ending), I feel obligated to direct others to the one I finally found so that no one else has to waste his or her time hunting it down (or worse yet, reading the entire 640 pages of the book itself). doesn't allow external links in reviews, so to find a concise plot search bookrags + summary + Harry Quebert on Google.