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taylormoore6's review
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
real_pansy's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
werdfert's review
4.0
I read this book ... why did I read this book? I didn't really like the one story of hers I read that was published in the New Yorker. But people compared her to [a:Tao Lin|161218|Tao Lin|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257969804p2/161218.jpg] and I wanted to read something like what he writes and I've read all of his books already. So I read this book. And I really liked it. Like really really liked it. Nothing tremendous happens and things are pretty normal and sometimes you don't know why this is a book, which is what makes it wonderful. I kind of felt like I had crawled up inside it and I didn't want my real life to go on without the characters. That sounds melodramatic. I guess I just mean they became real for me, which I think is something I like books to do. I think I hesitated giving this five stars out of sheer spite. Because I resented the book not actually being real, that I didn't know these people or even Ann Beattie.
jeremiah's review against another edition
"It occurs to Charles that songs are always appropriate. No matter what record is played, it is always applicable. Once, on a date in high school, when he was going to tell his date he loved her, Elvis Presley came on the radio singing, 'Loving You.' It always happens: politicians are always crooks, records are always applicable to the situation. Charles shrugs off his sweater. Martha and the Vandellas start to sing 'Heat Wave.' Charles laughs."
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