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I honestly wanted to like this book, but after having read One Hundred Years of Solitude (which was a work of pure genius), I was disappointed to find so many similarities between it and this book. It tries very hard to be One Hundred Years of Solitude, but can't quite come up to par. By the end it felt like a huge rip off to me.
I am a fan of the Big Stone Gap series as well as some of her stand-alones and so I high hopes for this one. What a disappointment. The excessive attention to superfluous detail made me want to scream. I had heard that the book was very descriptive but I had no idea of the extent. Do I really need to know what every character in every scene is wearing? I was subjected in mind-numbing detail about everything I never wanted to know about the outfits these characters wore throughout the book. Do I care that Dad’s feet, “in black suede Merrils, rests on the lower bar of the stool” while her mother’s, “in dark brown calfskin ankle boots with a high wedge heel, dangle above the foot bar”? Does it add anything to the story? No. This ridiculous attention to detail continues with clothing. At a birthday party early in the book, a character can’t simply cry out “Happy Birthday!” No, she “…cries (Happy Birthday!) in her black sequin tank with matching silk georgette palazzo pants and a wide hammered-gold chain-link belt that drips down her thigh with a fringe of rhinestones. She wears strappy gold sandals…” The clothing description continues with each character at the party, even the men. And on it goes throughout the entire book. Unless you care about shoemaking (which I most certainly do not) be prepared to read in excruciating detail every single aspect of the business. Character development took a back seat to the descriptive prose so much so that by the end of the book I no longer cared what happened to any of them, I just wanted it to be over.
A fun erotic book although it could have had more steamy bits - many more. I remember thinking at the time about how much more exciting reality was relative to what fiction tried to represent - especially with regards to sex. I think Anne Rice is over rated, but this book was still entertaining.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huy Phương
Great book by a new author. A young woman in search of what to do with her life and finding what she enjoys and following that path. Good reading
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lưu Đào
The summer referenced in the title refers to the time spent by the narrator in her small Minnesota hometown, trying to come to terms with her husband's recent infidelity back in New York City. The women she spends time with include her elderly mother and her closest friends, a young neighbor with two small children and an abusive husband, and a group of middle school girls taking a poetry class. The narration is filled with the raw pain and shock of dealing with betrayal after thirty years of marriage. The author tries to pack an awful lot (perhaps too much?) into this slim novel. There is a good deal of neuroscience and somewhat-rambling philosophy (the husband's field of study, and a special interest of Hustvedt's), the abuse subplot, an elderly friend of her mother's with a long-held secret she chooses to share with the narrator alone, and the whole "Mean Girls" subplot (perhaps the most forced part of the novel) -- certainly ambitious for 182 pages. On the other hand, I'm the one who always complains that novels today are way too long, and that twenty years ago most novelists said what they had to say in roughly 200 pages.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: David Lagercrantz
I really like this book The notebook because it shows whats love is about and how a couple try so hard to be with one another ,and how love is such a storng thing toward them even when they fight a lot with one another but they still love each other and how the girls parnet didn't like them together but they still try their best to be with one another this is a must reader toward the people who likes love story
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Matsushita Konosuke
This book was just absolutely phenomenal. Definitely one of the best books I've ever read.
Funny but it wasn't as good as "Slaves of New York" by this author.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Việt Hùng
WWI is over but you haven't left Paris...what do you do? Hang out and drink! Hemmingway defines the "lost generation" in this novel of loss and longing, where the most exciting days of your life are probably behind you and somehow you get on with the rest of it, carrying your emotional baggage wherever you land - even Spain.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: William Faulkner
Even the toughest, smartest person has a history that made her who she is today. And this book sheds some light to it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ba Gàn
léelo lentamente, o dos veces :)
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.