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tdeshler's Reviews (698)
It took me a while to get into this installment, but once I was there I found it to be quite engrossing. With the desperation came some powerful emotional crises that were handled nicely. I'm looking forward to the next the series.
Like the Hunger Games to which this series is often compared, the reader is thrown into a world of unexplained origin. Only at the end of the first book do we get a hint of the deeper plot, but it is a bare hint. The pace of the story was quick and satisfying, in spite of the rather dark subject matter. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
This book reminded me of his newer book, Reamde, although this one isn't quite as good. There is still some good turns of phrase, and there is enough of a zippy plot line to keep it interesting.
Having lived in Seattle for 23 years, it was fun to read about 1962 Seattle. The 1962 characterizations seemed a bit thin and one-dimensional, but the modern narrative moved along nicely. Altogether there really wasn't that much of a story, so I didn't find myself all that engaged.
This sounded like a promising tale, but in the end it was too badly fractured to hold together. I was starting to lose interest before Hand's intermission, but that part really put me over the edge. What was the point of all that disclosure? Then the book returned to its previous path, with a few unwanted reminiscences, as if the intermission didn't happen. I'll stick to his non-fiction in the future.
This is an interesting and entertaining book. I've rarely thought about the issues raised here, but I have noticed the rise of medicating children, a rather disturbing trend in my opinion. I guess I would also conclude that you don't want to get anywhere near a psychiatric hospital.
The storyline continues to be a bit of a downer (but interesting), but this book brought some interesting plot twists that gave it some fresh life.
Getting pretty bleak for this gang, but by the end they turn a corner ready for the homestretch.
It has been many years since I read an Anne Tyler book. This book has all the hallmarks of her style: beautiful prose and a frustratingly inept main character. I kept wanting to give him a dope slap. The epiphany offered by Dorothy's reappearance is more of an internal journey that we can only imagine, but it is an effective plot device for transforming the main character into a more tolerable man.
There have been many books about the horror of this war, but the stories in this book provide a more intimate and close up view of what it was like. Powerful stuff!