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sophiechoe 's review for:
The Price of Salt, or Carol
by Patricia Highsmith
I'm giving this 4 stars which is probably higher than it really deserves if I go by my normal star rating system where most books that are a good, fun read get 3 stars. Then 4 stars is if I learn a few things from the book. 5 stars if I learn a ton of things from the book OR if it made a substantial emotional impact on me.
Here's what I think: I didn't really learn anything from this book. Most of the book, objectively speaking, was just 2 women doing mundane and pretentious things like drinking wine and making small talk and buying expensive things. So why did I like it? Because, dear reader, it had style! It's like film noir if women were the main characters. And everyone loved them while they took the place of men, looking stoic and cool. Have you ever heard of anything better? However, similar to film noir, I didn't care too much about the characters. It just seems like film noir, at least to me, is always just about "vibes" and little else. I do think this book was about more than just "vibes" though. But I feel like you would have to take some pretty serious liberties through overwrought analysis to contrive more than common meaning out of this book, when in reality it just tells the story that everyone knows - of young and naive love that never really goes anywhere. But that's also why it's likable. It doesn't try to be anything more complicated than just a simple love story with great style. And it's definitely not something you see every day. That's enough for 4 stars in my opinion.
Here's what I think: I didn't really learn anything from this book. Most of the book, objectively speaking, was just 2 women doing mundane and pretentious things like drinking wine and making small talk and buying expensive things. So why did I like it? Because, dear reader, it had style! It's like film noir if women were the main characters. And everyone loved them while they took the place of men, looking stoic and cool. Have you ever heard of anything better? However, similar to film noir, I didn't care too much about the characters. It just seems like film noir, at least to me, is always just about "vibes" and little else. I do think this book was about more than just "vibes" though. But I feel like you would have to take some pretty serious liberties through overwrought analysis to contrive more than common meaning out of this book, when in reality it just tells the story that everyone knows - of young and naive love that never really goes anywhere. But that's also why it's likable. It doesn't try to be anything more complicated than just a simple love story with great style. And it's definitely not something you see every day. That's enough for 4 stars in my opinion.