A Slipping-Down Life
by Anne Tyler
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This is one of Tyler's earlier works, but one of the most recent I read. I could really tell that it was an earlier novel (perhaps her first published?), but I still found it a good read. She has such a wonderful way of creating these quirky characters and quirky situations. That is one of the things I have taken away from her books - putting two strange dynamics together and seeing what happens. The character of Evie is lost and a bit melancholy and ends up with a "rock star." It's a ...more
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Read in July, 2006
recommends it for:
hoity-toity readerly types
This is one of the strangest books I have ever read. It is extremely compelling. I couldn't put it down. However, the whole time, I just kept thinking, "This chick is a psycho!" And she really is. She becomes obsessed with this kid in a band, and so she carves his name backward in her forehead with a pocket knife. And then it maintains about that level of strangeness throughout. Definitely well written, but super bizarre.
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This kept gnawing at me.. I feel like I have experienced this minus the self-mutilation. The movie made the feeling worse.. which meant it was a good adaptation, imo. only thing is she still got the guy.. i didn't, which as time grows on.. is eventually a good thing.
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Read in January, 1988
I read this book back in High School and even then, I really did not like it. I like other works by Tyler, but this one was a stinker. Kind of dumb premise. Try other works by Anne Tyler, you will like them better.
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Read in July, 2004
I love Anne Tyler -- some of her books more than others. This one I liked. It has faded where others of hers have not. It may say more about me than about this books but that's how it is.
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Sad, but has one of my all-time favorite book moments... carving your boyfriends name into your forhead and accidentally doing it backward pretty much sums it all up.
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Read in January, 2003
I wrote my honors these on this book and its film adaptation so I am very familiar with it. I like Anne Tyler's writing and I can empathize with Evie.
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I think Anne Tyler is underrated, and this (one of her first three, completely unknown novels) is my favourite.
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I think this was one of her first novels, if not her very first, and it was kind of weird. But not bad.
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Read in March, 2008
Early Anne Tyler. I love Anne Tyler. I'd read the phone book if she wrote it.
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I read this a LONG time ago (over 20 years) but really liked it then.
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Read in January, 2008
Not her best, though good in its own way.
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Read in January, 1995
recommends it for:
those who like teen angst
A little freaky
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