Review: Lots To Learn!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
I like learning stuff and that is the beauty of this book:  one learns!  The main character is an American translator in Denmark who has Asperger's Syndrome.  He translates works by Kierkegaard who, to me, was just one of those boring old male Europeans that I had to study in Philosophy class way back in school.  So I learned about Kierkegaard (how to pronounce his name, how he seems to have been an  "Aspie" based on his lack of social skills and other personality quirks, and that he may or may not have been anti-Semitic).  Being the mother of an "Aspie," I found it fascinating to learn about the Asperger's Syndrome traits and feelings (or lack thereof)  through the first-person narrator/main character.  I learned that the Danes eat their sandwiches with a fork and knife (trivia is my thing).  Woven through this well-written tale is a very interesting murder mystery plot and I learned that in order to solve it, as I like to do when reading, I should pay less attention to what I'm learning and more to the progression of clues.  So if you enjoy a bit more than the usual--and sometimes boring--mystery novel, please try this book.