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Termite Parade (2010)

by Joshua Mohr(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

098201516X (ISBN13: 9780982015162)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Two Dollar Radio

review 1: I read "Some Things That Meant The World To Me " by this author a few months ago and loved it. I didn't like this book as well, I found several elements of the story to be distracting and the alternating points of view of the characters a little confusing at times. By the end of the book, I thought it had been a pretty satisfying read, I would rate it as "good", but not nearly as compelling as the book previously mentioned.
review 2: When I read the review of this book, in PW or NY Times, I thought it was going to be a really good, bleak story about horrible characters with horrible lives that I couldn't relate to at all. Instead it was a really good, bleak story whose characters, while not really similar to me or my life, somehow hit uncomfortably close to hom... moree. Usually books written in multiple viewpoints are a bit hard for me because I invariably gravitate to one of the tellers and feel wrenched away from that narrative when the viewpoint switches, I didn't have that problem with this book, though the twins Frank and Derek didn't elicit the same emotion for me as Mired. Even this, though, felt deliberate, under Mohr's control. There's a moment where Frank begins a new narrative addressing the reader directly with something along the lines of - you probably don't care, now that I've told you what we did, but I need to tell you that I didn't understand the horror of the act until it was done. And it was absolutely true; I had thought after his last narrative that he was an unworthy character, repulsive, but then that admission, regained him some empathy. It was Mired and her voice though that really made this story for me though - she is the most trusting and trustworthy narrator I've encountered in a while. less

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