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libbysbooks03's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
4.5
cerinr's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Skip the poetry. It adds nothing and is so so boring
tigerlillymelody's review against another edition
It’s interesting to read this book while during the same period I saw Nope and the Try Guys scandal is going on. This book is a lot of things but it is also a book about two stans of two famous authors trying to uncover the secrets of their personal lives by reading their receipts. They uncover scandal and use the spectacle of this and their relationship to it for financial gain and to advance their career.
utahmomreads's review against another edition
5.0
I read this the first time in college. I enjoyed it so much that I read it again a few years later.
emstack's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
chicletta's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
slow-paced
4.0
The most gripping story. The definition of a page turner. I dragged at some points but I highly recommend. A book to be read again and again
juleswells's review against another edition
Just not my kind of book, a little too deep/intellectual or something??
hsaven's review against another edition
1.0
Couldn’t finish… don’t see myself basically skimming another 300 pages of this. Might pick up another time"
amjl's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
embernhard's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
So fun. It’s basically what I want all academia-centric fiction to be. The radical feminism (and AS Byatt’s patronizing indictments of burgeoning WGSS departments) is deeply 90s, therefore dated and riddled with problematic stuff, but even at its worst I thought still hilarious (“my fellow sister-feminists” loll). Similarly, someone actually said, “god bless the xerox machine!” and meant it. I also love that the urgency comes not from some manufactured/high stakes villain-plot, but from a bunch of academics passive aggressively racing to claim citation credits. Also, the epistolary project that Byatt sets out to do (constructing fully realized Victorian poets - and their contemporary critics - who are in love), is too rich to ignore, even though the poetry and fictional lit crit were ngl my least favorite parts to read.