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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
By LynnB · 18 posts · 39 views
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Clever, sometimes too clever, in love with hating himself (author and narrator), and soooo self-absorbed. A product of his generation, I suppose, but I find it hard to care. Lipsyte's dialogues are fantastic, but then comes the inner dialogue that leaves a bile-y taste in my mouth. He's a shit, I'm a shit, we're all destroying each other. We live miserably ever after. Eh.
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This book should be retitled "The Ack"! It was dark (minus the humor), depressive, and the characters were wholly unlikable. I kept reading only because my beloved Bookmarks magazine gave it a four star rating. I was finally rewarded at the end of the book with a passage that I totally sympathized with, and swayed me to raise my rating by one star:
"I'm not very likable, am I?"...more
"You're likable enough," said Vargina.
"No, I mean, if I were the protagonist of a book or a movie, it would be hard to li
In his vastly entertaining--but dark--social satire, Lipsyte exposes the plight of the highly educated and discontented. Critics particularly enjoyed protagonist Milo Burke who, unlike most people, is keenly aware of his own mediocrity. They also enjoyed Lipsyte's well-rounded secondary characters: the embittered war amputee, the indifferent wife, the vaguely dissatisfied entrepreneur. One notable exception came from the Los Angeles Times critic, who found the novel strange and humorless. Overal
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