The Dinner: 'A twisty, turny, nasty little book for summer' Ben Mercer, TikTok

I regret using hours of my free time on reading this book. Starting with the narrator, I found him incredibly obnoxious and annoying, I couldn't agree or sympathize with half a thing he said or felt. I guess the intention of the author was to leave the readers frustrated at the end, and that's why it's a story about horrible people doing a horrible thing (¿?) ok, whatever, but if also his intention was to make the readers put themselves in the characters shoes and make them ask the question "what would I do?", with main characters THIS horrible, I found it impossible to empathize with any of them or to even want to understand them as humans or their motives. Also, I found the rhythm of the story very slow and boring, we spend entire chapters reading the most pretentious descriptions about the most irrelevant stuff, like FOOD. And there's way to many "flashbacks" of the narrator that don't help you know him or understand him any better and end up having zero relevance in the story.

The Gone Girl author and Herman Koch need to get together. Very very dark. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry!

The ending ruined the whole book for me. I was expecting something a little more exciting if I'm honest.