The Love Hexagon - William Sutcliffe

I borrowed this book in a local British Council office. We're lucky to have one in our God-forgotten Siberian industrial monster of a city. I usually pick up books after looking at their covers and reading the back-cover reviews. This time I was satisfied with the critics' praise and never regretted taking the book. The dialogs are wonderful. The one, in which the reader discovers that a girl at a bus stop who looks like a schoolgirl and wears something like a school uniform might actually be a schoolgirl, is fabulous. The conversations lack actual meaning, they are just small-talks but they're adorable. The characters are well-described and possess ...

The Sunday Times tells me on the back cover that this is a "comedy masterpiece". Well I don't know what book their reviewer was reading but it can't have been this one. Maybe someone slipped the reviewer a copy of High Fidelity by mistake. I'd previously read Sutcliffe's earlier novel "Are You Experienced?" which I'd really enjoyed. So I was really looking forward to reading his latest offering. The book starts off well, e.g I liked the title. Forget love triangles, here we have a love hexagon. Much bigger, much trickier, much better... well not quite, this book was a bit of a disappointment. The novel portrays ...

Opinion no. 100! Better make it a good one...;) The Love Hexagon is William Sutcliffe's third novel, following the brilliant 'Are You Experienced?' and 'New Boy'. In short, the novel had a lot of high expectations to live up to and unfortunately it falls a long way short. As the title suggests, the story follows the London lives and love entanglements of the six principal characters. Guy An ordinary Guy if you will pardon the pun, who is studying for a PhD. Guy doesn't really want to be studying, but then again he doesn't really want to do anything else so academia seemed like a good option to him. He has been ...