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My Brilliant Friend
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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What Members Thought

Richard Derus
Mar 21, 2018 rated it it was ok
Shelves: returned, borrowed
Rating: 2* of five

I have no memory of when I read this blah little excursion into pointlessness. The translation was perfectly fine, I'm informed by a bilingual Italian, so I say with confidence:

~meh~

I can't abide comparisons of this tedious twaddle to Jane Austen...there is absolutely not one scintilla of the genius that is Austen in this ponderous pile of pablum, this blancmange of a book. It will, as I see has been commented before, be perfectly adequate television. Though not tel
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Melissa Rochelle
Jan 11, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-2017
This is one of those books that I finish and am so sad I'm not in a book group so I can talk about it. I finished the book and immediately turned to Jesse to tell him about how shocking the ending was. It's one of those stories your girlfriends would tell you about her third cousin's wedding or something. The I-can't-believe-that-happened of it all. Oh! The drama! HE DID WHAT?!

I was not expecting to love this book. I am totally one of those people that picks a book because of the cover and this
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Em
Nov 20, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Karen Michele Burns
Nov 02, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 100wit
Porscha
Jan 21, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Maggie
Apr 02, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Susanne
Sep 10, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Rita
Sep 30, 2016 marked it as tbr  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2010-19, e-book
Aimee
Mar 11, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites
Jenaro
Jan 24, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Wendy
Apr 25, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Steph
Dec 18, 2020 rated it really liked it
Kathleen
Nov 04, 2017 rated it liked it
Shelves: general-fiction
Stephanie
Dec 15, 2017 marked it as to-read
Skittles Malone
Feb 04, 2018 rated it really liked it
Laura
Jan 16, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Petre
Mar 06, 2018 marked it as to-read
Katrisa
Apr 08, 2021 rated it really liked it
Ana
Aug 19, 2018 marked it as to-read
Patrick
Feb 12, 2019 marked it as to-read
Kris
Oct 20, 2019 marked it as to-read
Alka Joshi
Jan 13, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Janet T
Apr 10, 2020 marked it as to-read
Shelves: did-not-finish
Janice
Jul 08, 2020 rated it really liked it
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