The Brothers K by David James Duncan Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Brothers K
Book Review: Best book ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
I have nothing new to add. This is the best book I have ever read--satisfying in every way.Book Review: Breathtaking novel
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to say that this book has become one of those books I will be glad to read a second, third, even fourth time. The name itself, once fully explained in the novel is a great definition of the book in it's entirety.
I was at first a little scared at it's enormous size and by the fact that I had to complete this book in as little as about a month, having to do it for a school assignment. But, what I experienced by reading the book was much more great than I could have imagined.
I doubt that I have ever read a book so complete as this is, there always seems to be a way to expand the story in other stories, old characters stories aren't complete...or there's never any real resolution. But, this book by David James Duncan does complete the story, fully. In the end it begins like it started only this time with a new character, fully beginning a new story.
I recommmed this book for anyone who loves a true to life, conflict/family story that will leave a mark of hope on your life. It is really a fasctinating novel that touches your heart and interests you with its truthful subjects and history, that you can most definately connect to your life in one way or another.
Book Review: Brilliantly woven narrative that works on every level
Summary: 5 Stars
The most moving book i have ever read, and though it feigns simplicity, one of the most profound. Personal and universal at the same time, and BEAUTIFULLY written. I've read it three or four times already (once a year since the year i discovered it) and could read it a hundred times more. It looks like it's about baseball, but don't be scared off by that. It's really about family, love, G-d, war, morality, idealism, injustice, self-discovery, and hope. That sounds like a bit much, i know, but the threads are so brilliantly and seamlessly interwoven, and the characters are so real, that the book becomes a single unified whole. YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!Book Review: Brothers K
Summary: 5 Stars
It was delivered right on time, the price was right, and it is a good book.Book Review: Brothers K
Summary: 3 Stars
I have one word for David James Duncan-editing. While I enjoyed the basis of the story, family bonds over time weaved with values, confessions and self-doubts, I kept thinking edit. How did his editor miss the multitude of run-on sentences turned paragraphs that hindered the read? Also missed was the muddy narrative of Kincaid for the majority of the book, and suddenly Everett here and there, and Irwine's story of Vietnam,given with detailed inner thoughts though he was barely lucid. Duncan provided vivid character studies of the family of eight, but who couldn't in 640 pages. The religious family dynamics were pounded into the reader. The baseball information was interesting, but did we really need a chapter on that baseball rebel Roger Maris? Given all that, I was still pulled into this story. I laughed out loud a couple of times, the dialogue was frequently clever. I also cried a couple of times because the author made you know these people and so felt their sorrows. I have not read "The Brothers Karamazov" and feel I am missing out on some of the author's references because of it. The title, "The Brothers K", is intriguing in itself and left open to multiple interpretations. I also find it interesting that the main narrator, Kade, is the character least developed except for in the early years detailing a couple of key pieces of information. If writing it all down was to be his biggest contribution, how could he reveal so little of himself or even the reason for why he decided to relay his family's story? I feel this is an author flaw. Pare it down, clean it up, flesh out it's narrator and the novel would be 5 stars instead of 3.