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Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett 4/5
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Nicole D. wrote: "When this book started, and well into it, I thought this would be one of the greatest books I've ever read. There are moments beyond brilliance and it was justifiably a Pulitzer finalist and should..."I read this book last year and was impressed with it. I also gave it 4 stars. This was really a laugh and cry book.
I thought that Haslett did a superb job in giving the characters their own voice. I loved Michael.
I don't agree with you about Underground Railroad, but I am probably the person who was most positive about it on PBT, so I imagine others will feel the same as you.
I really wanted to love Underground Railroad. I'm still half tempted to reread it
I wasn’t sure about this book because of the subject matter, but your review has changed my mind - onto the TBR...
I liked this, too. Haslett did a wonderful job with the characters and with mental illness. It was one of the better reads of 2016 for me.
I’m icing this to my ‘read soon’ pile.
I loved this when I read it. My adopted sister has bipolar and it has been a rough road trying to understand her throughout her life. This book helped me understand a little more.
Nicole D. wrote: "I really wanted to love Underground Railroad. I'm still half tempted to reread it"Just sayin' I would never reread something I didn't love in the first place.
just added to my TBR. I noticed the cover of the book is very interesting. The cover I saw has two letters missing. Imagi e me G ne.
Ultimately for me though it ended up being 4 stars, vs. 5 but absolutely worth reading for those 10 star moments.
This is a story of a family dealing with mental illness. Per Haslett "I think of it in some ways as a kind of counterfactual account of my family". The humor scattered through out this book was so clever and original. I want to just keep writing the word brilliant, there's just no other way to say it, unless I get a thesaurus out and I'll still mean brilliant.
On the other hand, no punches are pulled with regard to mental illness and of course that was depressing. And look, that's fine - I have no complaint with that. I think were I got a little bogged down in the book was probably more along the lines of the "factual" part of the story - where the day to day life stuff just didn't live up to the other parts.
Flawed characters behaving imperfectly.
(truly) (view spoiler)[ it was interesting timing to be reading this book the week that both Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain took their own lives. It shed no light, however ... only exacerbated the sadness. (hide spoiler)]