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The Dinner

Herman Koch

Hardcover | Pages: 292 pages

Rating: 3.22 | 125123 Users | 16446 Reviews

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Original Title:	Het diner
ISBN:	0770437850 (ISBN13: 9780770437855)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Amsterdam(Netherlands)
Literary Awards:	Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek (2009), PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Sam Garrett (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2014)

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On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk - the banality of work, the latest movies they've seen. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act - an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. When the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner is an internationally bestselling phenomenon that will leave you breathless.

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Title	:	The Dinner
Author	:	Herman Koch
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	US/CAN
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	February 12th 2013 by Hogarth (first published January 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Contemporary. Thriller

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Ratings: 3.22 From 125123 Users | 16446 Reviews

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The folks in this book got under my skin from the get go. The pretentiousness was mind boggling. These are people for whom it's important who arrives last for a dinner reservation, for whom appearance is all. They meet at a restaurant that reminds me of The Emperor's New Clothes. Will no one admit to the laughingly almost empty plates of unique ingredients? And it goes downhill from there. These aren't people you're going to like. Those opening chapters give you an inkling of how these folks

Edit :: added spoiler alert per GR member request.(view spoiler)[Pretentious rot and Dutch version of Gone Girl but with sociopaths + food = unpalatable. I know. That was too easy. And smug.Sorry. (hide spoiler)]

Hated this book! It felt contrived and stilted. I didn't like any of the characters. I couldn't identify with any of them. None of the dialogue was believable. The situation was farcical (why would you go to a super-expensive, elite restaurant to talk about such a private matter?). The whole book was about protecting the kids from their own actions - their was no sense of personal responsibility, no remorse, no soul searching. The narrator was a violent thug who just whined incessantly the whole

Was different and interesting and kept me reading. But I probs wouldnt read again.

Hated this book! It felt contrived and stilted. I didn't like any of the characters. I couldn't identify with any of them. None of the dialogue was believable. The situation was farcical (why would you go to a super-expensive, elite restaurant to talk about such a private matter?). The whole book was about protecting the kids from their own actions - their was no sense of personal responsibility, no remorse, no soul searching. The narrator was a violent thug who just whined incessantly the whole

I understand comparing a book to Gone Girl will push sales, so yay for that comparison plastered on every The Dinner reference. But seriously, motherfuckers, this novel is more like Flynn's Sharp Objects and, in my eyes, better than Gone Girl. So let's stop talking about Gone Girl, even though I liked that book, because, you know, there are other books in the goddamn universe and I'm trying to review one as we speak.The Dinner's main character is an angry, reflective guy out at a restaurant with

Wow, lots to unpack here. This is a novel that has been sitting on my shelf for several years, and I finally pulled it down in a good-faith effort to read more of the books I already own. I don't remember why I was so interested in this that I bought a copy, so I skimmed some reviews to jog my memory. I saw everything from 1 star to 5 stars from Goodreads friends, with some very heated comments about the characters and the story. It lowered my expectations, and I felt ready to tackle this book.