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Lola Bensky (suhrkamp Taschenbuch) (German Edition) (2012)

by Lily Brett(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Suhrkamp Verlag

review 1: I was hoping for more from this book after reading the blurb on the cover, so was a tad disappointed with the turn the story took.I enjoyed the parts written about the 60's music industry, but there was nothing a quick Google could not have turned up. Somehow the word 'schizophrenic' kept coming to me - I felt the book didn't really seem to know what its main aim was, there I have said it, I was hoping for some good juicy titbits from the 60's music industry, and ended up with a book about something completely different.
review 2: What I loved about the other Brett novel, the engagement with survivors guilt, really put me off in this book. I would have liked to enjoy a pop novel and I wouldn't have minded the abstract psychological dealings as biographical mo... moretives, but I couldn't deal with the bloody details. Not in a book that I'm reading as a pop novel. But even as a pop novel I didn't much like narration. And I didn't get the whole fat woman discussion as it was leading nowhere as to not beeing fat anymore in the end. But making it such a central theme in the book and not solving it in any way but getting thin in the end is just a little week. less

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