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The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy
5.0
This book has 600 pages but once you start reading it, you'll find it hard to put down.
All tragedies of human lives are touched here. We're talking about war, heart-break, divorce, infidelity, miscarriage, mental illness, addiction, death... Everyone reading this novel will find a part that they can relate to... because that's how life is. But after it all, you need to keep going.
In one part of the book it says how most of the things in life don't have a bad or a happy ending. They just end. Just like that. And this is kind of how this novel ended. I like that, because it makes the whole story much more realistic and relatable to readers.
Douglas Kennedy is an amazing author and story-teller. His characters are so... human. In the book, they make choices that you may not agree with, but you will understand why they got there. You can't always judge characters for the choices they make, because at the end of the day, what would you have done?
This is a no-brainer 5-star for me and I hope I'll get to read more of Douglas Kennedy's novels soon.
All tragedies of human lives are touched here. We're talking about war, heart-break, divorce, infidelity, miscarriage, mental illness, addiction, death... Everyone reading this novel will find a part that they can relate to... because that's how life is. But after it all, you need to keep going.
In one part of the book it says how most of the things in life don't have a bad or a happy ending. They just end. Just like that. And this is kind of how this novel ended. I like that, because it makes the whole story much more realistic and relatable to readers.
Douglas Kennedy is an amazing author and story-teller. His characters are so... human. In the book, they make choices that you may not agree with, but you will understand why they got there. You can't always judge characters for the choices they make, because at the end of the day, what would you have done?
This is a no-brainer 5-star for me and I hope I'll get to read more of Douglas Kennedy's novels soon.