After a promising start, for me this book feel apart. It felt disjointed and confusing. The narrator, a funny, comically unreliable one, suddenly switched a few times but without, to me, seeming to add much but a sense of disjointedness. And what happens to these characters became more and more unimportant to me as the story progressed. It wasn't just that it was disjointed, I actually feel like something was missing, as if extra-terrestrials had redacted key bits or, more appropriately, the gods on Mt. Olympus had censored it and Banville didn't notice before it went to press.The man can write though. He is an elegantly eloquent, particularly in the way he describes light and its effects. I just don't know what he's up to or what he's trying to say. I have never read anything by this author before, but after reading to back of this book I thought what the heck, I'll give it ago.One Midsummer's day a family gatrehered to say their final farewells to their father, It said. Boring I thought, I continued reading, The family aren't the only ones gathered this day, I stopped and thought, What? Aliens or Ghosts!! some Greek Gods have joined them too...Now I'm interested, The Gods are a little bored.... Ooh, I think what will they do?The Gods begin to meddle in the Humans lives, to the point of no return.We enter Arden House, owned by the Godley's, Where Adam Godly senior lays in a coma, while his wife Ursela has a drink, Young Adam and his pretty actress wife Helen, and his Neurotic twicthing sister Petra all stand around old Adam waiting for him to pop is clogs.Hermes is the narrator, while Zeus has already tramsformed in to Young Adam and has a little fun with Helen in the first chapter. Now the the real meddling begins.
What do You think about The Infinities (2010)?
Beautiful prose and some interesting imagery...not much happens though.
—jamie
