Said Hassan từ Bandy Creek WA , Australia

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11/21/2024

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2018-03-13 15:30

Bé Yêu Tập Đọc Học Từ - Chi-Ki Đi Tìm Thời Tiết Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kim Mi Kyeong

Picked this book up at the Nashville airport for my trip back to San Jose. It does work as an "airplane book" but I found myself continually being annoyed by the characters. The amazingly self-centered father Joseph, his manipulative new girlfriend Felicity, the "wronged" mother, Betty, and her two daughters. Betty gets banished to a shack in Connecticut and gets every single penny of her funds cut off, while Joseph and Felicity get to stay in the fantastic apartment on Central Park West. And no one raises holy hell? They've been married for five decades and he cuts off every penny??? Totally didn't make sense. The younger daughter has public (on Oprah!) embarrassment over her lying clients, but never quite recovers---except when she's sleeping with a guy 20 years younger. Her way of dealing with her bankruptcy and shane is to harass her colleagues on the phone. The older daughter, Annie, chides her mother and sister over spending too much money---but somehow she always seems to have enough from her librarian salary to cover expensive suits and "I just had to buy it" $200 bracelets that her mother buys. Also unbelievable: Felicity's brother Frederick is a possible love interest for Annie, and she has no idea he is Felicity's brother. In fact, it takes them an inordinate amount of time to find out about Felicity. Later in the book, Frederick gets involved with a 22-year-old "home sitter" that Annie meets while visiting Cousin Lou and Rosalyn in Palm Springs. Really???? Most unbelievable is that they would all three agree to leave New York and live in the beach shack. I did love the owner of the beach shack - Cousin Lou - whose hospitality seemed to know no bounds. Cousin Lou's wife, Rosalyn, and Rosalyn's dementia-stricken father, Mr. Shpuntov were great comic relief. In fact, they were the only funny thing in this book. I never ever saw humor or "sense and sensibility" in the main characters. Also, it seems that something call "forensic accounting" saves the day, but we're not really told what that is. This book got me most of the way back to San Jose, but how it got a great review in the NYT is beyond me.

Người đọc Said Hassan từ Bandy Creek WA , Australia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.