short history of tractors in the ukraine

Seres

reading this at the moment , just want to get views of other people on it .
For me i find the characters kind of annoying , i like the bit history through the book, funny in spots but i find the irritating characters in the novel are dominating my overall view ?

Codofwar

Hey, I read that about a year or so ago and when I said I read it I actually mean I tried, much to my personal embarassement as I hate not finishing a book but this is one of the few I have turned away from. The characters were terribly annoying and I found the story to go at a terribly slow pace, I wasn't expecting it to be wickidly thrilling by any means but a good read none the less. It wasn't. sorry for the rant but I just really disliked the book.

Seres

glad to hear somone agrees with it , it is quite slow i have to agree , i al thinking will ya just get on with it , look forward to finishing it and moving on to something else

Richard Roma

I enjoyed it. The characters were quite annoying and one-sided at the start but they became more rounded as the book went, eventually I began to empathise with all of them

Blush_01

It took some work, but I think it was worth it. Is it not called A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian?

I really liked the snippets of fact mixed with the story.

St Bill

I didn't identify with anything in this book, so found it hard going. I found Two Caravans a bit easier to get through

Seres

Blush_01 wrote: »

Is it not called A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian?.

yours right , sorry my mistake !

Blush_01 wrote: »

I really liked the snippets of fact mixed with the story.

I also liked that too

BossArky

I just finished this book. Instead of starting a new thread I'll just put my review in here.

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A short history of tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

Enjoyed this. An easy, funny & quick 300 page read. The main character, an auld fellow, falls in love with a Ukrainian divorcee less than half his age. The book goes on to outline the conflict between the family and new found glamour/gold-digging wife.

"She exploded into our lives like a pinky fluffy hand-grenade". Lol :pac:

The bit about tractors is an interesting factual history of agriculture and the rise of the tractor interwoven with the fictional family feud.

7/10. I docked a few points as sometimes the story seemed to go around in circles e.g. everyone getting on far too well over meals directly after bitter court battles.

nolo77

I tried to read this when it came out first but found it mind-numbingly boring. Gave up after about 60 pages. I have the audio book on my ipod now so I'll give that a go one of these days!