Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story (original German title: Glennkill: Ein Schafskrimi) is 2005 novel by Leonie Swann. It is a detective story featuring a flock of anthropomorphic Irish sheep out to solve the murder of their shepherd. Written originally in German, the novel became an international bestseller, and has been translated into more than 30 languages.
It’s often clever, and sweet, but the story didn’t grab me at all, and the ending felt unsatisfying to me. Not a bad book but not for me at all.
Just not my bag of tea. I have a hard time when things or animals are anthropomorphized and this is a case in point. Never liked [b:Watership Down|76620|Watership Down|Richard Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298434234s/76620.jpg|1357456] (rabbits really?) and here is case of animals who are solving the murder of their farmer. I really only read about 50 pages and, while moderately interesting and pretty clever, just couldn't shake the fact that I was reading about sheep.
And as someone who helped raise some sheep on his "farm" as a kid, I couldn't imagine them being anywhere near this intelligent. Trust me - they just aren't that bright.
So call me not too bright for not being able to suspend disbelief and just enjoy the mystery, but I couldn't.
I wonder how to deal with this on Goodreads. I hate to count it as "reading a book", but I tried it, gave it a good shot …
Just not my bag of tea. I have a hard time when things or animals are anthropomorphized and this is a case in point. Never liked [b:Watership Down|76620|Watership Down|Richard Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298434234s/76620.jpg|1357456] (rabbits really?) and here is case of animals who are solving the murder of their farmer. I really only read about 50 pages and, while moderately interesting and pretty clever, just couldn't shake the fact that I was reading about sheep.
And as someone who helped raise some sheep on his "farm" as a kid, I couldn't imagine them being anywhere near this intelligent. Trust me - they just aren't that bright.
So call me not too bright for not being able to suspend disbelief and just enjoy the mystery, but I couldn't.
I wonder how to deal with this on Goodreads. I hate to count it as "reading a book", but I tried it, gave it a good shot and gave up. The only way I can rate it is to put it on my Read shelf. Oh well...
