Lisa's review of Free Food for Millionaires
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Lisa's review
rating:
recommended for:
anyone without a sense of humor
status:
Read in December, 2007
finished this book--and, I think I finished it just so I could be really thorough in any descriptions of why I disliked it so much. Min Lee is writing in one of my favorite genres--something like the upward mobility/bildungsroman for the scholarship student, but that's about all that I find to recommend this book.
If I had to sum up quickly--this book takes itself REALLY seriously, and is INTENSELY UNHUMOROUS. Not that she has to be funny, necessarily, but this is also a book that meditates upon the problem of debt (student loan, credit card, etc.) among college-educated 20-30 somethings. Since I know debt intimately, I think you have to approach it with at least SOMETHING LIKE a sense of humor. I mean, as anyone with rolling credit card debt knows, there is something pathetically funny about continuing to pay for food and clothes that you bought, consumed, and most likely gave away, years ago. But everything debt-related that happens to this protagonist is a surprising, horrible s...more
If I had to sum up quickly--this book takes itself REALLY seriously, and is INTENSELY UNHUMOROUS. Not that she has to be funny, necessarily, but this is also a book that meditates upon the problem of debt (student loan, credit card, etc.) among college-educated 20-30 somethings. Since I know debt intimately, I think you have to approach it with at least SOMETHING LIKE a sense of humor. I mean, as anyone with rolling credit card debt knows, there is something pathetically funny about continuing to pay for food and clothes that you bought, consumed, and most likely gave away, years ago. But everything debt-related that happens to this protagonist is a surprising, horrible s...more
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