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Maybe I'm a philstine, or maybe I just don't get it, but while I desperately wanted to love this book and become immersed in it (I haven't really enjoyed much of what I've read thus far in 2012), that didn't happen. I enjoyed the first part, but once I got to the second part I found myself distracted, confused and wondering if I should even finish it. Specifically, I found the second part very difficult to follow; I had problems figuring out who was who, who was talking, etc. In that sense it reminded me of Wolf Hall, another book that got blockbuster reviews but that I had difficulty following (as did many of my friends who attempted it). I've given it two stars (rather than one) because the author does a good job with the atmospherics and, particularly, the all too real unreality of North Korean propaganda.


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The Orphan Master Son A Novel Pulitzer Prize Fiction Adam Johnson Books Reviews

From a prizewinning novel I expect a memorable story with memorable characters. I hadn't even read a review of this masterpiece before beginning the first page, so I hadn't the first idea what it was about.
It is a gripping, chilling story. It exposes in excruciating detail the degraded lives of the people of North Korea through the experiences of the main character--a true "Everyman" but also "no man." Jun Do is "John Doe." He becomes Commander Ga because no one dares question this transformation--reality in North Korea is what the Dear Leader says it is.
The reader is drawn into this world, always hoping for some kind of redemption, knowing that only sacrifice--and being told the same thing--can perhaps achieve some sort of partial victory.
I couldn't put this book down. The characters continue to live for me, their stories and lives are part of me. A wonderful, wonderful book.
When I see reviews entitled something like "A Masterpiece" on , I often suspect they're hyperbole. But I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this is one of the best books I've ever read, and as a compulsive reader for over 20 years, that's saying something.

Without spoiling anything, the novel starts much like you'd expect a novel about North Korea it's foreign, bleak and disturbing. The first part of the book introduces us to Pak Jun Do -- the Orphan Master's Son of the title -- and it progresses steadily until you think you know what to expect from this novel. But at the end of Part I (about 25% through) the author shifts the story so surprisingly, so audaciously, I couldn't help but pay closer attention. Once I was hooked, I couldn't put the book down.

The Orphan Master's Son is one of those great novels, like The Life of Pi, that's both accessible and profound. It takes you to emotional places you didn't think you'd go, and yet by the end it all seems inevitable that you'd end up there. The author also did an incredible job rendering every nuance of the North Korean social climate. It's as if someone who lived there all his life wrote The Orphan Master's Son.

Mr. Johnson's storytelling is so masterful, it took me back to the feeling I had when I first fell in love with reading. I imagine this hauntingly beautiful novel will stay with me for many years.
A chilling account of life in N. Korea. The lives of ordinary citizens are portrayed in a heartfelt gripping manner. The reader comes to live & view the depth & breadth of total mind control by the government. Torture is complicit in the reign of The Dear Leader who is controlling & bereft of human compassion. One does come to wonder if the Koreas were United, could the N. Koreans adapt to,having choices? Could they make decisions? How does such evil power exist in this 21st century? This is a story of a nation of people manipulated, & enfeebled.
The Orphan Master's Son is a hard book to read because of its graphic descriptions of the tortures Jun Do, the protagonist, receives at the hands of the North Korean government employees. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. There is no happiness. There is not a single bright moment in the book because of the omnipresence of the DPRK's constant lurking in the background. There is no one to trust, no one to hang one's hopes on. It is a sad, depressing novel, and I have to wonder how much of it is TRUTH. Because I only know what newspaper reports say about the people and the government of N. Korea, I am glad I read The Orphan Master's Son because Adam Johnson does make me wonder about the horrors (cutting off tattoos without anesthesia) and the secrets (kidnapping foreigners) and the public attention speakers spreading propaganda (the imminent war with America). It is not a book to be read lightly; it's scary. With the nuclear threat actually being posed by the Kim regime, it might be a good idea for everyone to read this novel. "Forewarned is forearmed."
Maybe I'm a philstine, or maybe I just don't get it, but while I desperately wanted to love this book and become immersed in it (I haven't really enjoyed much of what I've read thus far in 2012), that didn't happen. I enjoyed the first part, but once I got to the second part I found myself distracted, confused and wondering if I should even finish it. Specifically, I found the second part very difficult to follow; I had problems figuring out who was who, who was talking, etc. In that sense it reminded me of Wolf Hall, another book that got blockbuster reviews but that I had difficulty following (as did many of my friends who attempted it). I've given it two stars (rather than one) because the author does a good job with the atmospherics and, particularly, the all too real unreality of North Korean propaganda.