John's review
Exit A: A Novel
by Anthony Swofford
Wow! I'm sorry to hear this. I enjoyed Jarhead (well, enjoyed is probably the wrong word) and I'm disappointed that he has no talent with fiction. Of course, now I'll have to read this to decide if you're right (just because you have a fancypants MFA doesn't mean I'm going to automatically agree with you).
John's review
Exit A: A Novel by Anthony Swofford
John's review
rating:
Sweet Jesus this book was terrible. I'd say the dialogue was stilted but that's not fair to the word stilted.
I have a masochistic streak so I made it all the way to the end. The ending was good news/bad news kind of thing. The good news was that the book was over and I was free of it. The bad news was that the ending was executed as clumsily as the rest of it. A major character undergoes a change of heart that comes out of nowhere. It was almost as if Swofford's editor told him "You have to stop now!" although that assumes that someone actually "edited" this and the idea that someone out there is really that poor at their job as Swofford is at his makes me sad.
I have a masochistic streak so I made it all the way to the end. The ending was good news/bad news kind of thing. The good news was that the book was over and I was free of it. The bad news was that the ending was executed as clumsily as the rest of it. A major character undergoes a change of heart that comes out of nowhere. It was almost as if Swofford's editor told him "You have to stop now!" although that assumes that someone actually "edited" this and the idea that someone out there is really that poor at their job as Swofford is at his makes me sad.
Wow! I'm sorry to hear this. I enjoyed Jarhead (well, enjoyed is probably the wrong word) and I'm disappointed that he has no talent with fiction. Of course, now I'll have to read this to decide if you're right (just because you have a fancypants MFA doesn't mean I'm going to automatically agree with you).