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The House In France: A Memoir (2011)

by Gully Wells(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307269809 (ISBN13: 9780307269805)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: I am gullible, Ask anyone who knows me. I can sit through virtually any movie, because I can believe the story, even if it's bad. This, I have determined, is for the same reasons I can take good photographs - if it is in front of me, I can notice something good and curious about it. Words are not enough to give me that primitive "in-front-of-me" feel. To be captivated means I cannot be annoyed on a regular basis.This book annoyed me in so many ways I could not finish it. When I was younger, I would drip water on my own forehead and give myself finger-prick blood tests in order to complete any book I started. Now that I am older, I see how much time my ego wasted for me. It was oh so easy to return this book to the library. Buh-bye.I wasn't sure; was it a New Yorke... morer article with rapid-fire phrases and culturally fresh descriptions? was it an awkwardly slow story pretending to become fine literature? maybe it was a food book? There was no conflict, no suspense, no change and no hook at all. I refused to drip water on my head just to finish a book that sounded like such a nice getaway. Shallow, repetitive and annoying about sums it up.
review 2: Having just finished Alexandra Fuller's two memoirs, I was almost memoired out, but this grabbed me in the end. Another crazy, angry, charming, combative mother, plus the typical connections you seem to get in a small country (Martin Amis, Bertrand Russell, Iris Murdoch and the ubiquitous Christopher Hitchens are just a few who make an appearance). Another unconventional upbringing, with several father figures in her life and her mother's odd, awful neglect of her younger brother, and then her mother's terrible death. Lively, entertaining and moving. less

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