Pamela, who has come to Ireland in search of a memory and a man who may not have existed in the first place.The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. Casey, a card-carrying member of the Irish Republican Army, who must face the fact that five years away has left him a stranger, a misfit in his own neighborhood where not everyone is sympathetic to a convicted rebel. They come from disparate backgrounds - Jamie a wealthy aristocrat whose life is like an imperfect but multi-faceted jewel-brilliant, flawed and with a glitter that is designed to distract the observer. All three lives are on a collision course with each other against the backdrop of the burgeoning civil rights movement and a nation on the brink of revolution. It is the spring of 1968 in Belfast and James Kirkpatrick has just lost his father under suspicious circumstances, Casey Riordan is released from prison after five years and Pamela O'Flaherty has crossed an ocean and a lifetime of memories to find the man she fell in love with as a little girl. In this sweeping and powerful epic the journey begins in the "terrible beauty" of Northern Ireland during a time when conflict reigns and no one is spared from tragedy and sorrow, the time known as The Troubles. I expected a book in stakes of Grapes of Wrath or The Picture of Dorian Gray but it falls far short and is just a book that I forgot as soon as I finished it. My expectations were too high and it disapointed me. None of the characters were engaging enough for me to truly care about loving or hating them. What character would you cut from The Thorn Birds? What didn’t you like about Greta Scacchi’s performance? There is nothing memorable about this book
It turned out to be a very love ordinary story unlike what it is pitched as. The story was just not as engaging as I had thought it wasd going to be. So I was really surprised when the book disappointed me so much. I recently slept through the Da Vinci Code movie but I'd stay awake until 3am reading the book.
I'm not a film person and I sleep through most movies. I watched it in the eighties when I was a child and was still only learning English but I could not get over it. It is one of those rare books which has the ultimate humiliation of being surpassed by its film adaptaion. One expects so much from these modern classics. What was most disappointing about Colleen McCullough’s story? I know it's not allowed to say that about this great book but that is how I felt.
I had so many and looked forward to finally reading it and was surprised to find that it was quite boring. This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
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