Nicole
YA fiction by two authors I don't know, recommended by a friend. I listened to it on Audible (good performance) and was immediately drawn in. While the characters may be a bit predictable, it didn't matter. I cared about them all and was very moved by the ending. Wish I'd read it earlier.
Compulsively readable, and I am ashamed of how ignorant I was of what was going on down there. Important to read, to understand our country and the damage done by the sound and fury of our media. We need more quiet voices telling the whole truth.
Read one, and weep with laughter. And then read them all. And then in five or ten years do it again.
Interesting speculative fiction with good characters, but I found myself glossing over the (for me) mind numbing detail.
While the writing was as brilliant as ever, I found myself less captured and transported by the book than Paris to the moon. In that sense a little disappointed. The essay on his friend Kirk Varnedoe and the Mighty Metrozoids was beautiful and true.
This book is a Must Read. It is available as a text or in their graphic version which I recommend.
Fantastic and substantive novel about the 60s, the SLA and our country's response, and Patty Hearst. Very funny at times, and with smooth and creative use of different voices. Others compare the author to Roth and Dellilo but he puts me in mind of Boyle and Powers. Recommended.
Another amazing book by Rushdie. Nothing hit me like the first I read by him. But none have ever disappointed. Tremendous writer and observer.
Disappointing second novel. Repetitive, too much gratuitous violence, heavy handed, and missing the surprising ideas that mad the windup girl so remarkable.
So disappointing. Some characters are so flat and hackneyed (the cop, his war buddy for example). The sex scenes from the romance are corny. What is the book even meant to be – a who done it? A chance for diverse voices to speak and share their world? A family melodrama? A look at how the country is evolving? For me, an unsatisfying book which I'm sorry I bothered to finish.
I listened to the author read this book and it was mesmerizing. Highly recommended as an audible book.
Some of these essays feel like they could have been written now ... Not 50 years ago. Informative, serious, provocative and moving. I'm so very glad I read this book.
I learned so much from this book. It was hard to absorb it all. But you can't unsee what is laid out, after reading it. A valuable read.
The first section — when he describes working in restaurants early in his career— is delightful and absorbing. The last third of the book ... meh
Vivid historical whodunnit set in the winter wilds of northern Canada in the late 1800s. An absorbing page turner, with interesting characters and sub plots. It made the cold and desolate north very real to me, sitting in my snow covered house under a blanket. Sometimes the language is anachronistic, but just plow past it and enjoy the story, and the generally good prose. A great vacation book.
My first book by MFK Fisher. Interesting to read, as a window on a person of privilige in her time. Her prose and language choices often made me think of Hemingway . . .
I listened to this. Stellar performances of this mesmerizing, beautiful, challenging and moving book. Loved it and will listen to it again soon