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The Heart Broke In (2012)

by James Meek(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0857862901 (ISBN13: 9780857862907)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Canongate

review 1: The first few chapters make Meek seem like a sin apologist and a really horny dude. Ignore that, power through, and it ends up raising a ton of interesting questions about applying moral principles to real life scenarios (you can't!) and the nature of mortality. I love the separate stories (celebrities AND science? my perfect mix), and they dovetail beautifully at the end. My only complaint is that the middle of the book drags a bit.
review 2: Like the previous book I rated, I wasn't a big fan of the way Meek skims over large chunks of time with overviews of character's histories in the third person - however, also like the previous book (The White Family by Maggie Gee), I was drawn in. For me, this novel really came into its own about two-thirds of the way th... morerough; at first, it seemed a fairly standard mix of characters with family issues, potential scandal, varied work related detail that didn't at first seem entirely relevant. I can't put my finger on what changed but it really did seem to click at one point and I went from being mildly interested to quite engrossed. Give it a go. less

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