Yuck.I want back the time that I wasted on this book.
Yuck again.
I want my money back.
Two families full of characters I either despised (Howard Belsey, Victoria Kipps) or simply disliked (Zora Belsey, Monty Kipps). It reminded me of The Corrections with no redeeming graces.
It was disjointed, with characters falling in and out of the story. Carl's here, Carl's not here, oops, Carl's here again, oh now Carl storms off for good.
There were no truths. Maybe that's an overstatement. Very few truths. Just contrivances, superficialities and exaggerations. Stereotypes.
Yuck.
1 comment:
What about Levi? There was an endearing innocence about him that I liked. And Kiki was my favorite; probably the only character who we really got to understand the inner workings of her mind of.
At any rate, my friend Njoke and I had an online discussion about the book here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/On_Beauty_Zadie_Smith
We'd love your comments if you'd care to share them with us.
Thanks!
Jason
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