Eclipse Audiobook (Unabridged)

" I hate this book. It hooked me in the beginning but never went anyplace interesting. The characters are dull and depressing. The first book I hated that I actually finished, which adds nothing to its worth. It was painful to the end. "

" dissapointed. i usually enjoy the book store recommendations. the main character's pretentiousness made it difficult to get into the book "

" I was a bit disappointed in this book. The language is beautiful, though at time pretentious, but considering that it is supposed to be a ghost story of sorts, amazingly little happens in the 200+ pages. I did enjoy it, but will not likely read another Banville. "

" Fairly ornate writing, but to what end? There wasn't one character, or a single mood, emotion, or sentence that gripped me. Or even made me pleased to be reading. Just one of an endless stream of examples of why most contemporary literary fiction is not for me. "

" A word pile slid down and formed quite a boring jumble. "

" Critics really love John Banville. He uses language really well, but his writing style is surreal, sad and dark. "

" Another great Banville book. Not as good as Book of Evidence but very good. Also, about an actor, which I like. "

" Banville is so good in this one...he makes chapter breaks seem so unnecessary....wonderful monologues that trapise into present from past and retrace seamlessly...liek albert camus, i thought...very good book "

" Stunning! Another first person triumph from Banville, wherein the form of the novel is as important as the content. Awesome in the truest sense of the word. "

" I gave up about a quarter of the way through. Banville's writing style is so mannered and affected, showing off with obscure words like Buckley... how about some real characters and dialogue instead of hyper-erudite descriptions from a self-absorbed narrator? "

" A someone gave my this well-written book which I'm so sorry I read. A fifty-year-old white able-bodied actor goes through all this angst. Yes, there are tragedies and death, and yet I find him pathetic. "

" I saw John Banville at a bookstore reading last month. A guest asked him to describe his writing process, and he described it like any other day job - he sits at a desk for eightish hours and then tries again the next day. I really like this. "

" Beautiful writing, wonderful evocation of human confusion - like watching someone looking into the complex machinery of their emotional wiring and being utterly confounded. "