Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel is the prequal to Bring Up the Bodies which I noticed on President Obama's reading list.  This book is extremely well respected as a winner of the Man Booker Prize.

Started: 3/6/2020
Completed: 3/10/2020
Recommendation: Not recommended
Recommended By: President Obama

Review:

The minutiae of Thomas Cromwell do not interest me.  I would say it is just Henry VIII trying to get his groove on, but I have read a couple of books that touch on this subject.  I even read The Life of Thomas More a couple of decades ago and made it all the way through that--a much more boring read from the view of content.  This book, however, I just could not take.  The novelization did not catch me and I found the characters (though big players on the stage of their time) to be uninteresting.  The dialog (maybe taken from letters?) did not grab me and I was constantly trying to figure out the time period of the book as it seems to jump back and forth in Cromwell's life with few clues that a transition had been made.  I just don't get it and gave up half way through.