Lunch [Import] [Paperback]

Karen Moline (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (August 5, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330337955
• ISBN-13: 978-0330337953
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Get it at the library, February 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lunch (Mass Market Paperback)

Although I found some of the sex scenes repetitive and somewhat repellent, I continued reading in hopes that the past of "M" would be revealed. This hope was disappointed, only brief glimpses were allowed. I think this is part of the reason I didn't make a deep connection with the characters, I didn't know them well enough.

The story line was interesting, as was the obsessive downward spiral of the relationship. The ending was ambiguous, but certainly fit the scope of the novel.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Silly and sick, but fun, February 11, 2000

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Amy D. Smith "amydeaton" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lunch (Hardcover)

This is no feminist manifesto. It's clumsily written and the "shocking" sexual situations are the most common that you could imagine. Still, it's a lot of fun, a guilty pleasure with some mystery and grace- just not much. I enjoyed it thoroughly and would read anything this author wrote even though I might hide it under the bed if I had dinner guests.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars In a word..., March 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Lunch (Mass Market Paperback)

Tedious. It's rare that I speed through a book solely for the purpose of getting to the end of it so I can throw it down and get to a better book, but this was certainly the case with "Lunch". This formula has been done before, more engagingly and intricately, by better writers. The author's attempt at provocation fails miserably and the book reads like an over-dramatized romance novel with a buffoon for a central character. The author also has a tendency to build up to nothing which I first noticed in "Belladonna", (which was, nevertheless, better written and more engaging than "Lunch", due to the narrator's viewpoint of the story and a more developed plot and central characters). This novel may have been quite the scandal if it were written in 1940, but it certainly doesn't cut it today. Lunch? No thanks.