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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

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Jul 08, 2018 Travis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Mere minutes ago, I finished reading We Need to Talk About Kevin, and I am now in desperate need of an intellectual and spiritual palate cleanser. The bleak, gray intellectual nihilism with which this novel begins morphs, by the end of the novel, into the soul-crushing, grievous, cold, black moral and existential nihilism of an unrelenting, unforgiving void.

I want to go watch a bunch of upbeat re-runs of Frasier or The Mindy Project. I want to watch some heart-warming or humorous Christmas movi ...more

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Jul 11, 2018 Becky rated it liked it

This was a hard book to read. I thought the first half her letters was just a way of telling her husband "I told you so." I didn't want to read them I figured her husband probably wouldn't either. It's only told from one point of view so it's hard to figure how much is exaggeration of events and what was accurate. I will admit, the author got me at the end as I figured one thing out but not the other. The book is probably supposed to fuel the debate on are some kids just bad or is it because of ...more

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