uroosa's review
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
uroosa's review
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
uroosa's review
rating:
ok so i loved 9/10ths of this book. it was beautifully written...like a long poem that had both inter-sentence and inter-paragraph symmetry. each line is cleverly carved to make a whole. the story itself is not anything new: parents who screw up in the same ways as always, children who cope or don't cope. but it was the language really that was wonderful.
what i didn't like about this book was the ending. i felt like that was pulled out of a hat. here's a family whose daily lives were like war, lets throw nuclear armament into it for metaphorical purposes?? hows that for an allusion?!
anyways, on the whole an excellent book.
what i didn't like about this book was the ending. i felt like that was pulled out of a hat. here's a family whose daily lives were like war, lets throw nuclear armament into it for metaphorical purposes?? hows that for an allusion?!
anyways, on the whole an excellent book.
