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A review by nathansnook
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
dark
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
3.0
Good behavior, bad behavior, who knows?
The fun is in deciphering how our protagonist Aroon deals with all the disillusioned moments at hand in a debt-escalating family that knows no bounds in keeping impressions. A very adult book in which I felt like I sat at the kid's table, knowing not the difference between dark or funny, or if they were both.
I don't know what it was about Keane's writing. Perhaps much more is happening beneath the surface, but I don't find it as entertaining as a Murdoch. Regardless, it's fine by all means.
If anything, I felt it was too long. If anything, this could've been done much like DeWitt's The English Understand Wool. What I'm saying is if you kill a damn woman at the beginning of the book, then what am I reading 300 pages for if it couldn't be done in 69?
The fun is in deciphering how our protagonist Aroon deals with all the disillusioned moments at hand in a debt-escalating family that knows no bounds in keeping impressions. A very adult book in which I felt like I sat at the kid's table, knowing not the difference between dark or funny, or if they were both.
I don't know what it was about Keane's writing. Perhaps much more is happening beneath the surface, but I don't find it as entertaining as a Murdoch. Regardless, it's fine by all means.
If anything, I felt it was too long. If anything, this could've been done much like DeWitt's The English Understand Wool. What I'm saying is if you kill a damn woman at the beginning of the book, then what am I reading 300 pages for if it couldn't be done in 69?