452 reviews for:

Telephone

Percival Everett

4.04 AVERAGE

misskrechel's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

jessicalyn's review against another edition

4.0

reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

missbuckets's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

chrysemys's review against another edition

4.0

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One of Everett's non-satirical novels.

The events in the book are mostly incredibly sad but the narrator retains a somewhat detached demeanor through most of it. It somehow muted the emotional intensity for me.

I must have missed the reason for the title, the metaphor that the author was trying to evoke.

claire_s_stories's review against another edition

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What a quirky book. Honestly, I still don't know 100% how I feel about it, but I'm glad I read it.

sprucebruce's review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a book that explores the dramas of a real American life. Nothing that happens in this book, with one exception, is unbelievable. To me  the most remarkable part of this book is how compelling it remains as we live through these more or less ordinary, though some extreme, problems

vananne7's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

amy_c_s's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional fast-paced

enbyemu's review against another edition

3.5

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I found out after finishing that this book was published with three different endings. I've managed to find all three online, but my rating of the book varies depending on the ending - from 3 to 4 stars. So my final rating is an average of the three versions.

lcity's review against another edition

4.0

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes