Book Club @ MCL

Friday, December 07, 2007

Independence Day by Rchard Ford

The Morning book club has just finished discussing "Independence Day" and most of us were pleased with the book. I had to admit that after 100 or so pages, I felt like screaming, "Where's the plot"? But, after 200 more pages, one is deeply immersed in the book and the plot less beginning has a point. There is method here! Ford does not let us connect with Frank Bascombe until he begins to have connections with others in the book...when he begins to live and not merely exist.
Some of the members will move on to the next book in the trilogy...I am not sure I will.