Reviews

Le ore by Michael Cunningham

beccaattiffanys's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

thirstyfortea's review against another edition

4.0

"We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so..."

jpmatt's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

laurenshannon's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

j_k_nelson's review against another edition

4.0

4/5

tokita's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

jof68's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

42thursday's review against another edition

4.0

Wonderfully written, with all of Virginia Woolf's sensibility and thoughtfulness. But there're too many gays in the book, I'm not really sure Virginia was really appealling to homosexualists in her "Mrs. Dalloway"..

frankchester's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

zornni's review against another edition

4.0

I was lukewarm about this book until the end, which tied everything together perfectly.