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Flight Behaviour (2012)

by Barbara Kingsolver(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0571290787 (ISBN13: 9780571290789)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Faber

review 1: This book is Barbara Kingsolver's attempt to get climate deniers to believe. And it might work if only you could get them to read a Barbara Kingsolver novel. Kingsolver walked a delicate line here, describing rural Southern life and people without making fun of them. For that I give her an A+, but at times it feels as if she's trying just a bit too hard. Still, it's one of my favorite books because of the message.
review 2: This is an absolutely lovely book, one of the top ten I have read in my life. Kingsolver writes like a poet, like a bard -- her words are a mixture of metaphors and similes and song, leading the reader along the plot theme of ... climate change.Climate change isn't a fun plot but it is certainly important. I sometimes wonder why it isn't wha... moret we talk about and read about in every spare minute (no joke). Kingsolver addresses this through a fictitious climate crisis, which confuses me, since there are certainly enough weird climate crises around to frame as her scene. To construct her own, then use it to try to sell the genuine climate change catastrophe to the masses -- and then use an epilogue to confess none of it is real is harmful. WHAT isn't real?, might ask the reader. How much did you make up? I hope readers as sophisticated as Kingsolver's get their science information elsewhere. Past that, she does develop complex and realistic characters. I don't think she is condescending to the poor southern Christian community. I think she shows that side and those opinions very well. I was shown clearly why people do and think the way they do. I do think she is hard on male characters, as is her weak spot in other books. They rarely come out likeable. I have just read a string of Stephen King and his son Joe Hill's books where the opposite is true, where the female characters are rarely likeable or realistic or not at the same time. Flight Behavior does last longer as a book than it should. Barbara Kingsolver is a literary genius of our age, though, and I bet no one wanted to take an editorial axe to her work. It IS so lovely, I could read anything -- I could read her tell about her trip to the dollar store and still be enthralled. Wait. The book takes us through the dollar store, and then through a lengthy trip to the thrift store, too, for the sole plot purpose of getting an old encyclopedia into the household. Kingsolver's books have been getting longer as editors give her full rein.Even so, the book is a solid 5 stars. And she is on a whole other scale from everyone else. less

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