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Hating Olivia: A Love Story (2010)

by Mark SaFranko(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061979198 (ISBN13: 9780061979194)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Maybe it was self-fulfilling prophecy, but I found myself completely hating Olivia through the course of this novel. Her life is a one-dimensional paragraph in a Psych 101 discourse, a woman seeking out shelter in the form of her sexuality to escape demons in her past. Not that my sentiments towards any of the other characters were much warmer - shallow, unsubstantial and cliche, even the narrator himself seemed so disinterested with his own life so as to inspire little to no sympathy. He claims to be an intellect, a true bohemian, and yet nothing speaks to this fact other than obscene lists of authors and artists dropped from space so as if to show how "artistic" and "bohemian" Max is solely based on the fact that he reads. It's as if the author, not truly understanding h... moreow to write a character driven by art or expression instead decides that these lists of famous free-thinkers are perfect substitutes for character development. Bohemian ideals are beautiful things when they are personal and organic, but a mass-produced shadow of someone's idea of what a bohemian is falls very short. An inconsequential tale written with sophomoric flair, the one nice thing I can say is that it only took a day of my life to read.
review 2: This book is hard to describe...I really liked it but it was so depressing and the characters are so tragic. The couple in the book just go through so much and through the whole book you keep wondering why are they even still together and torturing themselves. Makes you think twice about love and bad romances. The real question of the book is how do you know when to walk away? And when enough and enough? less

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