Can somebody tell me what is so good about it?
Is somebody who doesn’t read much crime, I can’t see what the fuss is all about. I decided to pick up Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club for something to read. Something light, she thought. Something fun, she thought.
Yeah, nah.
350 pages of having the tits bored off of me.
I get what it’s supposed to be, I lighthearted look at a group of pensioners who solve murders.I get that all the characters are a little bit quirky. I get that most people reading it would have a parent a lot like this, who would be meddling in all the wrong places as parents do in their 70s and 80s. It also has a look at the ageing process and all the quirks that go with that.
And I know that people love these books, but I don’t get the appeal. And it’s not for the fact that it’s boomers having fun, in that way that only boomers can press their entitlement without being too obnoxious.
I’m just not finding this book charming at all. I have 10% of the book to go, according to my Kindle. I will finish it, because I am bloody-minded like that.
And okay, I will give it that I do like the setting. You know, a country house, an old church yard, lots of Land Rovers and the odd fox. (I love foxes).
And I watched the movie on Netflix last night and was just as bored. Too many stereotypes tropes. Of course you have David Tennant over acting, But there is nothing new there. I did rather like Helen Mirren, who was, as always spectacular, and Pierce Brosnan playing slightly against type was good fun. It was great to see him doing an aerobics in the pool at one stage. Kudos to that.
However, I think there is one author that I won’t be reading again. No great loss I don’t think. There is plenty else out there to read.
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