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I love Lorrie Moore's short stories, thereby I thought a novel by her would be just as entertaining. It took me weeks to get through the first hundred pages of this book. What a disappointment it is. It is the final 50 or so pages of this novel that are so terribly sad that make it interesting but to get to them, is oh so hard.I felt like I was trudging through a blizzard of heavy snow - making little progress with sodden boots on my feet. As a friend said, it seems this novel is written as a s
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Much of this book seemed 2 star-worthy; one scene in the last third of the book was so powerfully written, I added the third star. But I wish I could give 2 1/2...
True, some of the sentences are brilliant, but others are awkward. Much of the book, from the plethora of exclamation points and similes to entire plotlines and characters, is gratuitous and self-indulgent. The book meanders for pages and pages until the author hits her (pretty annoying and frequently not believable) narrator/central ...more
True, some of the sentences are brilliant, but others are awkward. Much of the book, from the plethora of exclamation points and similes to entire plotlines and characters, is gratuitous and self-indulgent. The book meanders for pages and pages until the author hits her (pretty annoying and frequently not believable) narrator/central ...more
This story of a year in the life of a midwestern college student veers from comic to melodramatic to questionable to tragic, and then to profound. Tassie discovers a lot about herself, her family, the oddities of the adult world through an accidental romance, her work as a nanny for a biracial foster child, and her attempts to connect and also stay firmly apart from her family.
Many, maybe most of the characters are underdeveloped, and those who get a fuller treatment tend toward the awkwardly un ...more
Many, maybe most of the characters are underdeveloped, and those who get a fuller treatment tend toward the awkwardly un ...more
Dec 26, 2009
Monica
marked it as to-read
Even though Carol gave it 3 stars 'll take her recommendation cause back in the day I liked Self-Help an awful lot.
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I was won over by the prose.
Dec 29, 2009
Monica
marked it as to-read
Jan 10, 2010
Kat (A Journey In Reading)
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Apr 29, 2010
Sheila
marked it as to-be-checked-out
Sep 26, 2010
Lindsey
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Sara
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