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lucyistoocool's review against another edition
5.0
Rainbow Rowell is notorious for writing books with very little plot and a ton of dialogue and feeling. I love it and I love that ratio and I love her and I love this book
karrama's review against another edition
3.0
Landline is the story of a woman writing for a TV show who gets the opportunity to write the pilot of her dreams with her college friend/crush over the winter holidays. Her already unhappy husband and children head off in one direction and our heroine, Georgie, stays with this dream job and still-slightly-intriguing friend. The name comes from Georgie's cell phone acting up and she begins to use the landline, an old rotary phone that serves as the medium for her continued communications with her family.
I love reading Rainbow Rowell's writing, but I didn't gel with this one. I couldn't catch on with the characters emotions, though the motivations were clear. I wanted to like it so much, but just couldn't. It's a solid Goodreads 2⋆ book. I read it all the way through, but I didn't really "Like" it as a three star would have been. Partly, I admit that I don't like reading stories about husbands and wives fighting, and partly the mechanism was too on the nose for me. This book was solidly OK. All in all, I'm looking forward to Rainbow Rowell's 2015 release regardless.
I love reading Rainbow Rowell's writing, but I didn't gel with this one. I couldn't catch on with the characters emotions, though the motivations were clear. I wanted to like it so much, but just couldn't. It's a solid Goodreads 2⋆ book. I read it all the way through, but I didn't really "Like" it as a three star would have been. Partly, I admit that I don't like reading stories about husbands and wives fighting, and partly the mechanism was too on the nose for me. This book was solidly OK. All in all, I'm looking forward to Rainbow Rowell's 2015 release regardless.
gfs0619's review against another edition
5.0
Note to self: just read everything by Rainbow Rowell. Always. Then read it again.
brittneyah's review against another edition
4.0
THE COUPLE THAT HELPED THEM IN THE END.
WAS CATH AND LEVI.
I CANT.
WAS CATH AND LEVI.
I CANT.
roseltov's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I needed this book. It’s a light and fluffy look at relationships and making love work day to day. I didn’t love love the characters, but I liked the idea of the story and that carried it for me.
katieana_210's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
ritasreadingcorner's review against another edition
5.0
I've come to notice I much prefer Rainbow's stories about adults. I loved Attachments, which was a great surprise, as well as this book. Landline is a great story about love. It shows that we can't just give up because things are not ok and, if we love someone, it will always be worth it to fight for them and for our happiness together. I truly loved this book and I wish everyone could read it to learn something.
bookph1le's review against another edition
3.0
Torn about this one. I love Rowell's writing, but I just did not like Neal, which was a shock. One of the things that I love about Rowell's writing and that made me devour her previous three books in rapid succession was my joy at her ability to create male romantic interests that are sweet and worth caring for, rather than the broody bad boy who treats the woman who loves him like crap.
And then Neal. Ouch.
He's definitely the worst male love interest in any of Rowell's books. To be honest, I was hoping Georgie would figure out she was better off without him and sail off into a life of the career fulfillment that Neal seemed to spitefully want to deny her.
In fairness, though, I thought Georgie was rather infantile, so I had trouble getting behind her too, but, really. Neal was miserable from day one, couldn't figure out what the heck he wanted out of his life, and Georgie is the bad guy because she has the audacity to want to stick with a career she loves? It makes me hurt.
And then Neal. Ouch.
He's definitely the worst male love interest in any of Rowell's books. To be honest, I was hoping Georgie would figure out she was better off without him and sail off into a life of the career fulfillment that Neal seemed to spitefully want to deny her.
In fairness, though, I thought Georgie was rather infantile, so I had trouble getting behind her too, but, really. Neal was miserable from day one, couldn't figure out what the heck he wanted out of his life, and Georgie is the bad guy because she has the audacity to want to stick with a career she loves? It makes me hurt.
novelette's review against another edition
3.0
It wasn't horrible. But the end seemed to drag on.
The characters are unlikable. Seth is a complete armhole, and I just can't understand why Georgie puts up with him. He tries to thwart her relationships at every turn.
Georgie is so self centered. At one point, Georgie is thinking of telling Neal "you don't hate everything about your life. You like how the sea makes the girls and I feel". It is clear this man gave up everything to be with her.
Overall, the story was predicable, but passable.
The characters are unlikable. Seth is a complete armhole, and I just can't understand why Georgie puts up with him. He tries to thwart her relationships at every turn.
Georgie is so self centered. At one point, Georgie is thinking of telling Neal "you don't hate everything about your life. You like how the sea makes the girls and I feel". It is clear this man gave up everything to be with her.
Overall, the story was predicable, but passable.
stormyharper's review
4.0
This book reminds me a lot of you reached Sam what I feel like it's written a lot better so our main character Georgie and her husband neal Georgie's decides to not go to his parents at Christmas time and instead stays home in California because she has a deadline for her TV show what she does with her friend Seth but she believed that her and Seth should have been the ones to get together a long time ago she has two kids with her husband but she finds it extremely hard to get in touch with him threw her mobile phone he doesn't pick up and she just assume that he's mad with her one evening she spends the night at her mum's house and decides to ring her husband off an old landline yellow phone this is no Ordinary phone it takes her back to the past and her husband picks up from her mother-in-law's house she feels like she's going crazy but every time she tries to ring her husband on her mobile phone she can never get through to him and if by some miracle somebody does pick-up he's never around this was a really mysterious book at some point side thought that she was in like a coma or something ordered in a plane crash I don't know no but it was a good book and I am happy I read it I was a bit nervous about reading it as I hate it fangirl by this author