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Jacob's Folly (2013)

by Rebecca Miller(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0374178542 (ISBN13: 9780374178543)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: The first half of the book was intriguing and funny, and I cared about the characters. Then it fell apart; the characters became two-dimensional stereotypes, and the fly all but disappeared, only added in almost as though it were obligatory. I grew impatient with the parts that extolled Masha so much. It's boring to hear (or read) someone in love go on and on about how perfect the love object is. I felt like the author was in love with Masha and stopped painting her as a person. At the end, there were some neat tie-ins between the characters but not enough to save the whole middle part. What I loved the most was the insight into Orthodox Jewish life, both past and present.
review 2: The plot of the book is somewhat interesting, well described by others. Of the ... more3 parts the story that takes place in 18th century Paris was by far the most interesting, My 2 problems with this book are that the 3 parts don't hold together as a coherent whole and that is is badly written. I frequently found the author's choice of words to be so bad as to be jarring. "That evening bride and groom ....their happy smiles sweetening the memory sticks of all present". " As the two sexes beat a path to their requisite doors, I hovered in the air, torn." I feel that this book has gotten a lot of publicity because of the author's fame and family connections and not because of the quality of the writing. less

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