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donnawr1 's review for:
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
I read this for a book club and would never have chosen, or finished reading once started otherwise. It ended better than it began, but I found the characters to be too stereotypical and exaggerated than true to life, especially at the beginning. Macon, the main character, seemed like cardboard cutout of an OCD man. Muriel's dog training abilities are great, if a little rough, but just a tad too perfect for real life. I can see why it would be easy to convert into a decent movie.
That said, the book deals with relationships and parents with the death of a child. It is done in a format that is sometimes humorous and also showing that each character has different forms of scarring in their lives. The book moves quickly and at times the prose is quite beautiful. In fact the prose becomes more interesting as Macon starts to open up his life and be able to see the people and places around him as interesting. So overall I found it interesting and would recommend you keep going if put off by the first quarter of the book.
That said, the book deals with relationships and parents with the death of a child. It is done in a format that is sometimes humorous and also showing that each character has different forms of scarring in their lives. The book moves quickly and at times the prose is quite beautiful. In fact the prose becomes more interesting as Macon starts to open up his life and be able to see the people and places around him as interesting. So overall I found it interesting and would recommend you keep going if put off by the first quarter of the book.