Revolutionary Road in Around the World in 80 Books

Dec 25, 2008 Sera rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle, own, literary-fiction

The writing in this book is superb. The marking of a great book is when the author is able to make the reader feel like one or more of the characters. I felt that way when I read the Age of Innocence, and I felt that way when I read this book. The suburban angst that exists among the characters in the novel made me uncomfortable when reading this book. No one is happy with their lives, and the tragic ending makes this a depressing read, even though the writing is fantastic.

It's 50-50 whether I w ...more

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Jan 17, 2011 mstan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: american, src-winter-2011-12

Oh piercing suburban loneliness, lovely young couple teetering on the edge of self-annihilation, parent-less bright young things, golden handcuffs offered in the dankness of a paper-pushing job... I love this book - but am not sure if it's because of the movie, which I'd seen some years ago (even if the critics don't agree on its value). The utter misery of a marriage gone wrong for no reason other than the death of idealism, and the damage two not-evil people can inflict upon each other are sub ...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Seulky rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction-classic

Yates writes beautiful sentences. Sentences that remind us how beautiful certain words strung together can become. It's worth reading just for that. ...more

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Nov 06, 2008 Patty rated it liked it

people who like really real realism really really like this novel. it's not my kind of novel, but i recognized that it was extremely well done. ...more

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