A review by jdgcreates
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

1.0

I so wanted to like this book, to finish this book--maybe if I had finished it I would've liked it? Well, we'll never know for sure because 44 pages was enough for me. What made me stop was the narrator's annoying habit of saying the same thing three "different" ways for three sentences in a row. And the fact that the big event or tragedy or whatever it is, is alluded to on every page (almost!) but I could tell the build-up was going to kill me and probably not reward me in the afterlife for sticking with it. Plus I've read "Any Human Heart" semi-recently and it had a protag who was just more interesting and whose life was more eventful and attention-worthy (and I had the Matthew MacFadyen PBS Masterpiece adaptation to keep me going when I might've otherwise not). Now if PBS gets their brilliant hands on this, I will definitely WATCH it.