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kimu 's review for:
The Price of Salt, or Carol
by Patricia Highsmith
It is hard reading this book through the lenses of someone in 2016 to think about what this book might have meant to people when it was initially published in the 1950s. While the ideas in this book seem dated now, it's not a stretch that there are still parts of the world and even parts of the United States where the barriers that Carol and Therese face are still a problem.
I found the first half of the book to be very slow and it was difficult for me to get into it. Overall the pace of the book seemed quite choppy to me. Despite this, it was well written and interesting, and so I'm going with 4 stars. I'm glad that we read this for my book club so that I stuck with it until the end.
I found the first half of the book to be very slow and it was difficult for me to get into it. Overall the pace of the book seemed quite choppy to me. Despite this, it was well written and interesting, and so I'm going with 4 stars. I'm glad that we read this for my book club so that I stuck with it until the end.