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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unless it's required reading...Don't!,
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This review is from: In a Hotel Garden (Paperback)
I had to read this exercise in futility for a class. It started off badly and I thought if I had to read one more "Ben SAYS" or "Rick SAYS" that I would have to drown the book in the bathtub where I was reading. I'd have rather tried to sort through the indistinguishable voices of Ben and Rick than keep reading the word "says". I was so annoyed that I really didn't care which boring person was talking. All we have to go on is what the people say to each other. We're not in anyone's head, and there is no internal dialog, which makes the characters flat and half-formed. The back of the book informs us that Ben's encounter with this woman, and her grandmother's story "illuminates Ben's half-lived life". It seems to me that for both Ben and Lily,possibilities are far more interesting than reality. Too bad that the possibility of the book was not borne out in the reality of the reading. Too bad Josipovici only manages to half illuminate the reader. |
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In a Hotel Garden by Gabriel Josipovici (Paperback - May 1995)
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