I’ve finished reading De goede grap van Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson. Original title is The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman.

It was an alright read. There are two main characters, Norman and his mother. The chapters are written from their perspectives, alternating between those two. The roadtrip in the story was at least something, they did meet interesting and weird characters on the way. I can’t help but feel that the story could have been a bit more dynamic. The guy travelling with them was almost a HAL 9000. Very convenient. :P

My annoyances are that the mother was quite an overthinker in the extreme of ‘We better go home, because it’s too scary’. Norman was the other way around and kept thinking about what his recently deceased buddy would’ve said about the trip. After a while that got a bit tedious to read over and over again.

When they finally came closer to the end of their roadtrip, the pace accelerated like crazy. And you know what? That part was actually very fun to read. It’s ridiculous, very unlikely, but still fun to read. That was a very welcome diversion.

The ending was just a bit underwhelming. I mean, it was totally expected but still… I’ve read books before which has roughly the same kind of deal and they managed to milk their endings more. I wanted to see some more about Norman’s performances there, but ah well. Onwards to the next book I guess.
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