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Uma Vegetariana No Açougue: A Saga De Uma Mulher Num Mundo De Homens, Carne E Crise Moral (2010)

by Tara Austen Weaver(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Seoman

review 1: Wow…you’d assume that if you had Anne Lamott write a comment on your book jacket, you also might have an editor. Tara Austen Weaver has a cute idea – and she has a cute voice – but this book is marred by narrative aimlessness, writing errors, and word misuses.A strict vegetarian raised Weaver, so Weaver has little or no insight into the world of meat. As an adult, she’s told to start eating meat to combat weight gain and fatigue. Sure, she had some misgivings, but she wanted to feel better. Her health woes could be considered a drive for the book, if she didn’t amiably wander around, looking at things that fascinate her in the most random ways possible. Because she doesn't focus, the book quickly loses tension and immediacy, feeling indeterminable. Weaver see... morems distracted by humpy butchers and genial health purveyors; she only talks about their healthfulness in a nonscientific, purely incidental way. Facts are introduced at odd moments. Finally, Weaver’s “findings” are not all that inspiring or insightful, because she spends so much time on everything but her own solution – she covers it in about 6 measly, incomplete pages. She accidentally stumbled on her own healthy living answer, and she even admits it’s a pretty impractical answer, and it probably won’t even work for everyone.What is worse is her writing. She puts modifiers as far away from their subjects as possible. Example: “I was 2 when my father left, a small thing with white-blonde hair and blue eyes I hadn’t yet grown into.”I swear that for a moment – until I got to the end of the sentence - I thought the dad was a small thing with white-blonde hair.Later, she talks about a burden; she calls it a “yolk” instead of a “yoke,” and she’s not making an egg joke. She misuses “fair” for “fare.” Errors like this frustrate me. Where was her editor?
review 2: This book, in case any of you didn't already glean from ALL the amazon.com comments, is not as advertised. There aren't really any men, she doesn't have a relationship (romantic or platonic, really) with the butcher, not does her "adventure" with meat properly constitute a romp. She's not even really a vegetarian. She's got some kind of illness, can't figure out what it is, goes to a bunch of doctors, and tries eating meat to make herself feel better, but that doesn't help either, so in the end (SPOILER ALERT) she tries a raw food diet and that seems to do the trick. I'm happy for her, because it sucks to be ill and not be able to fix it, and I feel like she's a nice person, so that's why 2 stars instead of one. That said, this book is not really very interesting, funny, or worth reading. less

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