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ekaps500 's review for:
All Fall Down
by Jennifer Weiner
It should be noted that I am in no way, shape, or form the target audience for this book. I usually enjoy reading books about people or characters I have nothing in common with-- books that show me a world I would not otherwise get to see. Here, not so much.
I guess for me, this topic seems sort of overdone, and done better elsewhere. I get that denial is a big part of addiction, but I didn't really need to sit through 200 pages of it. By page 12 you could see where it was going and by the end I was doing some serious skimming to make it through. Especially during the random talent show/skit part. What was that?
Also, all the supporting characters were really, really obnoxious in my opinion. I was ready to ship her child off to boarding school and divorce the shit husband about a 1/3 of the way in. I've never met such a whiny, unlikeable group of people. I couldn't believe when she got back with her husband at the end....that can't be a healthy relationship. Sort of feels like she did a lot of settling at the end, which, though probably very realistic, was sort of a depressing note to end on. That's REALLY not a life I would ever want.
Last thing-- what was up with the old lady at the retirement home? Was that a cameo character from another book? That was such a random scene for me. What's that quote by Chekhov? "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
Overall, sort of a blah read that I was happy to be done with.
I guess for me, this topic seems sort of overdone, and done better elsewhere. I get that denial is a big part of addiction, but I didn't really need to sit through 200 pages of it. By page 12 you could see where it was going and by the end I was doing some serious skimming to make it through. Especially during the random talent show/skit part. What was that?
Also, all the supporting characters were really, really obnoxious in my opinion. I was ready to ship her child off to boarding school and divorce the shit husband about a 1/3 of the way in. I've never met such a whiny, unlikeable group of people. I couldn't believe when she got back with her husband at the end....that can't be a healthy relationship. Sort of feels like she did a lot of settling at the end, which, though probably very realistic, was sort of a depressing note to end on. That's REALLY not a life I would ever want.
Last thing-- what was up with the old lady at the retirement home? Was that a cameo character from another book? That was such a random scene for me. What's that quote by Chekhov? "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
Overall, sort of a blah read that I was happy to be done with.