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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
tl;dr: A buncha stupid millenials do a buncha stupid millenial things. The end. Also, Africa.
But no, this is actually a very decent book. And it's comforting to know that privileged younguns in other places are just as self-involved and conceited as...
But no, really, this is a good book. Well written, interesting setting, believable characters, all that good stuff. Only problem is that as true to life the characters are, and as well as they are captured in words, I never cared for any of them. There's an oblivious rich guy and his obnoxious family, a poncy academic and his unstable, free spirit sister, and the protagonists aren't all that much better, either. Here's them talking about male protagonists widowed mother remarrying:
Charming, eh? Sure he wants her to be happy, as long as it doesn't impact him in any way.
Now it's certainly possible to write a good book about unlikable characters, but this is at least to some extent a love story, and I stopped giving a damn whether they get together about halfway through.
Aight, review over, now get off my lawn.
But no, this is actually a very decent book. And it's comforting to know that privileged younguns in other places are just as self-involved and conceited as...
But no, really, this is a good book. Well written, interesting setting, believable characters, all that good stuff. Only problem is that as true to life the characters are, and as well as they are captured in words, I never cared for any of them. There's an oblivious rich guy and his obnoxious family, a poncy academic and his unstable, free spirit sister, and the protagonists aren't all that much better, either. Here's them talking about male protagonists widowed mother remarrying:
"Your mother never wanted to remarry?"
"Even if she wanted to, I don't think she would, because of me. I want her to be happy, but I don't want her to remarry."
"I would feel the same way."
Charming, eh? Sure he wants her to be happy, as long as it doesn't impact him in any way.
Now it's certainly possible to write a good book about unlikable characters, but this is at least to some extent a love story, and I stopped giving a damn whether they get together about halfway through.
Aight, review over, now get off my lawn.