‚Nice Work? Sounds interesting!“ was my ironic declaration when I got the information that we’d read Nice Work by David Lodge at school.
I read the first chapters and I realized that my first impression that I had because of the title wasn’t that wrong.
I guess 18 and 19 year-olds are the wrong
target group for a book about the daily life of adults, business, factories, feminism and the battle…mehr‚Nice Work? Sounds interesting!“ was my ironic declaration when I got the information that we’d read Nice Work by David Lodge at school.
I read the first chapters and I realized that my first impression that I had because of the title wasn’t that wrong.
I guess 18 and 19 year-olds are the wrong target group for a book about the daily life of adults, business, factories, feminism and the battle between the sexes.
The first three chapters describe the daily life of the main characters Vic Wilcox and Roberta (Robyn) Penrose. Vic is working in a factory and he’s very successful at his job.
Robyn is an intelligent, feministic English lecturer.
If it wasn’t for school I would have stopped reading after the third chapter but for school reasons I forced myself to continue reading, hoping that the storyline would get more interesting after these chapters.
I think it would have been a bit more interesting if only little parts of the chapters had consisted of a description of the daily lifes. But with three chapters in a row that describe the daily life, reading gets more boring chapter by chapter and it starts dragging on.
To my relief the fourth chapter wasn’t as boring anymore and finally the detailed description of their daily lifes stopped.
This chapter deals with Robyn’s and Vic’s first meeting and it was kind of interesting to read
how two people with completely different interests and a completely different way of seeing things are forced to work together.
But to my disappointment the rest of the book gets boring again.
But even though the storyline isn’t that interesting, there are positive things about the book. The storyline is easy to follow and the language is easy to understand.
The author’s choice of the point of view, was very well chosen, through his chosen point of view it was easy to identify with the characters.
All in all I think that the book isn’t that interesting for teenagers, but I think that for adults it is an entertaining novel. So I’d recommend adults to read the book.