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Tempeste (2012)

by Thad Ziolkowski(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

886632213X (ISBN13: 9788866322139)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

e/o

review 1: Honestly, I bought this book for the author's name and while I felt like the book got under my skin,it was a bit too dark a coming of age story for me. There were characters that reminded me of people I know and experiences that felt like things I had been through. . . enough to make the book feel strangely familiar. The author is able to create clever and entertaining characters -- obviously the author is smart and learned enough to play at being annoyingly pretentious, but with a sense of self-awareness that makes him (his characters?) endearing. The ending doesn't shock, but seems sadly inevitable -- and the events right before the ending of the book suck the life out of the characters. At the end, one doesn't feel much hope, even though the author tried to leave us s... moreome crumbs. The ending felt too dark to be true and I didn't appreciate being left in that space. It does say something about the power of this author to take me to such a depressed state, I suppose. Overall, I am glad that I read the book, but I won't save it on the shelf to read again someday.
review 2: I, like other Goodreads readers, read this book because it got a good review in the New York Time. But it left me cold - a strange story about a totally disfuntional family and their friends and lovers. Many of the reviews of this book praised the writing, but I found it fairly boring and the characters didn't interest me. In contrast to the New York Times, the review in the Kansas hometown paper called it boring and unrealistic. What am I and the Kansas reviewer missing. less

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