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A review by jedbird
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
3.0
This was a very melodramatic book, complete with Gay Tragedy, and even from a gay author, I'm really over gay tragedies every damn time.
It had some nice moments, but for me it was hard to relax into the narrative because the wording seemed so stiff. I can't read the original French, so I don't know if Molly Ringwald did a good job or not, but the whiplash shift situation with tenses throughout this book kept throwing me out of the story. It was just all awkward angles.
Maybe this is picky, but that's who I am: at one point, the author claims that the Clash song 'London Calling' was inspired by British miner strikes in 1984, which is absolutely not true. The 'London Calling' album came out in *1979* and had nothing to do with miners. It's weird that the author makes a point of drawing this out, because he didn't with other pop culture, and the rest of the period detail seems accurate. (I am basically the age of the characters)
It wasn't heinous, just absolutely predictable, and I expect better in 2019.
It had some nice moments, but for me it was hard to relax into the narrative because the wording seemed so stiff. I can't read the original French, so I don't know if Molly Ringwald did a good job or not, but the whiplash shift situation with tenses throughout this book kept throwing me out of the story. It was just all awkward angles.
Maybe this is picky, but that's who I am: at one point, the author claims that the Clash song 'London Calling' was inspired by British miner strikes in 1984, which is absolutely not true. The 'London Calling' album came out in *1979* and had nothing to do with miners. It's weird that the author makes a point of drawing this out, because he didn't with other pop culture, and the rest of the period detail seems accurate. (I am basically the age of the characters)
It wasn't heinous, just absolutely predictable, and I expect better in 2019.