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Good Neighbors
by Sarah Langan
3.5 stars
I have a lot of feelings about this one, and they are mostly hard to articulate feelings.
This book approaches climate change/sinkholes/natural disasters we have created but doesn’t really address the long-term ramifications. I wanted to know if this black sludge is killing people, or is it just an annoyance? The book is mostly a cautionary tale that will actually occur in some other form than it did in this book.
The neighborhood aspect of this book is odd. It’s not to say the dynamics aren’t true. Those are. There are insiders and outsiders to most neighborhoods. You can tell who is there by lineage vs. circumstance and who really, really wants to be there. I’m not objecting to that part. I’m a bit skeptical about how the dynamics play out in this particular book.
It’s obvious this author is a “literary” writer. It feels like there was a lot of stuff in this book that I didn’t “get” - metaphors and perhaps allusions to Shakespeare…maybe? Or maybe it was just extreme satire.
This would be a good book club pick because there are so many routes to explore, and I’d like to listen to what others thought.
I have a lot of feelings about this one, and they are mostly hard to articulate feelings.
This book approaches climate change/sinkholes/natural disasters we have created but doesn’t really address the long-term ramifications. I wanted to know if this black sludge is killing people, or is it just an annoyance? The book is mostly a cautionary tale that will actually occur in some other form than it did in this book.
The neighborhood aspect of this book is odd. It’s not to say the dynamics aren’t true. Those are. There are insiders and outsiders to most neighborhoods. You can tell who is there by lineage vs. circumstance and who really, really wants to be there. I’m not objecting to that part. I’m a bit skeptical about how the dynamics play out in this particular book.
It’s obvious this author is a “literary” writer. It feels like there was a lot of stuff in this book that I didn’t “get” - metaphors and perhaps allusions to Shakespeare…maybe? Or maybe it was just extreme satire.
This would be a good book club pick because there are so many routes to explore, and I’d like to listen to what others thought.