Good story, mediocre implementation entertaining

After seeing round the successful Hollywood adaptation of the book (which I do not know yet) have a lot of positive things about the story seen and read, I was very happy to read and had relatively high expectations for the book. I have a weakness for something slanted stories and quirky characters, and with reference to the Table of Contents I assumed that would be "The Silver Linings Playbook" therefore lie exactly on my wavelength. Unfortunately, my expectations have not been met. The book is all right, but not impressed me.

Protagonist and narrator Pat has been just released from an unspecified psychiatric facility ("the bad place") and now does everything in his great love Nikki recapture that broke up with him. What exactly has happened between the two and why Pat has spent several years in the hospital, we learn only at the end of the book. Until then, you may it at excessive sports activities, accompany peculiar appointments with the mentally also battered Tiffany and the cheering of the local football teams.

Two elements have bothered me massively: I could not do anything with the main character, and American football plays too big a role in the story for my taste.

Pat is very naive and sometimes something infantile in his unwavering optimism and unconditional faith in the eponymous silver lining. This is initially quite charming, but annoying visibly. It is learned that he worked before his collapse as a history teacher, and in that role I could not imagine him with the best intentions. Apparently he had previously not only a completely different personality, but also had a level of education which is someone who seems structured so simple, does not trust. As already mentioned, we learn the background to his hospital stay until the end of the book. After that I was indeed quite clear (er); However, the revelations have can not change the fact that Pat has previously happened to me over long distances on my nerves.

American football is pretty much the most important thing in the life of Pat's entire family. The house blessing depends on whether the team wins or loses, and it is about little else talked as past games, the outlook for future Games, the performance of individual players, the design of merchandising products, the trappings at the matches etc. etc., etc. It is estimated that half of the entire text deals in any manner with American football, and to me personally that was clearly too much. The sport does not interest me even in real life, and the constant repetition of silly battle cry, the discussions about players and games all bored me to death. I do not doubt that there are actually people out there for the (passive) Sport plays such a large role; I am also aware that sport for the (male) family members here serves as a means to obtain at least a rudimentary communication among themselves upright. This does not change the fact that the escalating versions have considerably annoyed on the subject.

Overall, a book which is based on a good plot idea has me but please just mediocre in execution. The film I'm going to look at the opportunity still perhaps the whole thing on the canvas more entertainment value.