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| Saturday, February 18, 2006 |
"The Corrections"
This was supposed to be a great book. The New York Times said its "everything we want in a novel." Pat Conroy called it "The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years." Even Oprah loved it.
And I didn't like it.
This is not to say that it isn't well written. Esquire is right; "The Corrections " is "a stunning anatomy of family dysfunction." I'm just not feeling sufficiently bitter to appreciate that right now. Maybe I should only be reading books about rainbows, teddy bears and pretty, pretty flowers.
That being said, there were a few phrases that rang true for me:
... "She'd always been a pretty woman, but to Chip, she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like." ...
... "Not being theatrical, Chip felt disadvantaged around people who were." ...
... "What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always disagreeable or attractive." ...
posted by Nichole @ 11:43 AM
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