A review by blueeyedshook
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley

1.0

Well, being that a movie was made out of this book I thought for sure that meant that it would be a decent book. Unfortunately I was wrong. I mean, come on. Judi Dench. Kate Winslet. Has to be good. Nope. This is a memoir written by the husband of Iris who is a victim of Alzheimer's. I have read memoirs, and I understand that a memoir is usual less captivating than a novel being that it is about someone's real life, but then minus the fact that this is not written by the person whom it is about, and then minus it being written by a terribly boring writer, and then subtract from all of that the fact that it doesn't follow any pattern of life, just tells story inside of another story then skips to a different story before ending that one and gets the reader thoroughly confused... Well, let's just say after all of that subtraction there simply isn't much left. I was sadly disappointed and, as difficult as it is for me to do, put the book `1down before I had completed it. Too many good books, too little time to spend on a disappointing one like this.