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Life After Forty (2006)

by Dora Heldt(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1611090091 (ISBN13: 9781611090093)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

AmazonCrossing

series

Christine

review 1: Das ist meiner Meinung nach leider das schwächste Buch von Dora Heldt. Nahezu deprimierend wird die Scheidung zelebriert und das Eheleben und die Partnerschaft verteufelt. Dazu gibt es kaum Handlung und ein paar weniger Figuren (die meisten haben gar keine wirkliche Funktion und man verwechselt sie schnell) hätten es auch getan. Außerdem ist die Geschichte ab und an moralisch widersprüchlich. Vom Ehemann betrogen werden ist übel, selbst mit verheirateten Männern schlafen aber völlig okay! :(
review 2: Oh dear. Where to start?I got this as a Kindle Deal of the Day (thank goodness, I would have hated to have paid full price for this) and only realised as I started reading that it has been translated from German.So first to the subject matter: nearly-40-yea... morer-old suddenly finds out that her husband wants a divorce. She moves to a flat and lives the single life...Could be an interesting fluffy, light holiday read.Now, I am not bilingual, but I am as near as dammit bilingual and I can spot a bad translation a mile away. And this one was very close. I don't generally mind translations, but I do prefer to read German books in the original since I'm well able to understand them. If they are so badly translated that they grate within 2 pages, I really should have learned by now to just put it to one side and stop.So to recap: the translation was awful.But the idea of the story had promise. But... oh my goodness. I'm guessing that the painfully raw descriptions of her fantastic, but obviously kooky in a "look how kooky my friends are" kind of way, along with their fantastic jobs in a great lively city (Hamburg - I have to agree on that point, it's my favourite place in Germany) and we have such fun and are so good looking vomit vomit vomitand bloody hell - they smoke like chimneys.Anyway, nothing happened. She furnished her flat from IKEA and her friends did all the building and moving because she was too upset about her divorce. And then she stayed with her parents and boffed a childhood friend, then... oh it's too painful. There was absolutely no story to this at all. No purpose, and one very boring description of buying a very expensive espresso machine and a horribly expensive chair.The only only only good thing about this? I finished it in a few hours. WhichI will never get back. less

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