Belinda’s Reviews > The Middle Parts of Fortune > Status Update

I WILL finish this book. I will. I just have to wade through the tedium. It's such a patchy book - some passages and chapters are amazing, wonderfully written and poignant. You just have to plod through the rest of it to get there. Bourne is a cardboard cutout of a character, and I can't make myself give a damn if he lives or dies at this point. 

If nothing else, it's great for curing insomnia. 

I love the parts when they're in the trenches. Occasionally there's a fantastic passage. But to get to that, you have to slog through a whole lot of middle management-esque tediousness. Bourne simply isn't a character I like or connect to. He's too perfect, and I feel like he doesn't have very much depth beyond being noble.

I'm not enjoying this as much as I'd hoped.