The Double by Jose Saramago

Last night I finished another book from the never-ending list of literature that I am trying to get through before I die. I thought that it was the first book that I had ever read by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, until I consulted the list of winners and realised that I had also read things by Camus and some others on the list. Well, it is still the only book I have read knowing that the author was a winner of the Nobel Prize. It was a great read, much better than the Jeanette Winterson book I read on Wednesday which to be quite honest I didn't really understand or enjoy. This book had a great story to it, once I had got used to the way it was written. Dialogue is not presented in a traditional way, but runs continuously within the text. It's a little confusing at times to know who is saying what but you soon get used to it. Out of the three books I read last week, it is the one I most enjoyed. It tells the story of a history teacher who discovers that he has a doppleganger when he is watching a film that was recommended to him by his friend, the Mathematics teacher. The story is about his quest to find his duplicate. A very entertaining read.