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Designworld Designworld design_world — It's no wonder that Dave Eggers is quoted on the cover of this book, calling it "astounding": in many ways, The Effect of Living Backwards is like a female version of A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius. We have a young protagonist who thinks she possesses all of life's answers; throughout the book, she belittles others without literally saying so. Now, there's nothing wrong with having a genius protagonist. Until, of course, this protagonist (Alice) is placed in a cocky, first-person point of view in a spectacle of how clever, brainy, and cynical she can be. And it's not even a Holden Caufield sort of cynicism; it's just plain annoying. Take Alice's dialogue, for example: "I support denial in certain extenuating circumstances, for which this certainly qualifies." Blah. In The Effect of Living Backwards, Alice and her sister and flying to the sister's wedding location when the plane is hijacked by mock terrorists who play a series of psychological and philosophical games on their victims. This continues throughout the course of the book, leaving us wondering when they're going to just get off the damn plane. Moreover, you know the narrator isn't going to die, so it's not like you're shivering in suspense over her life. Actually, at a couple points, I hoped they would just shoot her already and put her out of her sneering misery. The main storyline is interspersed with back stories of the passengers. This is where we actually get some meat: the strength of the novel is in its tangents, its imaginative references that are thrown in here and there. But for the most part, it's a novel that's hard to swallow and lacks soul. I became impatient a third of the way through, as the book slowly lost all its potential charm.

Marcelo Lanoël lanoel — Who knew that Hemingway was a fanboy? After I read this novel, I found that out. This novel basically recounts Hemingway's days, mostly in Paris, among the famous of the Lost Generation, and his conversations and adventures with them across Europe. I'll start with my problems with this book: The first 100 pages were incredibly difficult for me to get through, as I do not like Hemingway's writing style. I never have, and I very much doubt that I ever will (with the exception of Sun Also Rises, and that mostly an exception of subject matter and character). I am sorry to those of you who have just fallen over in shock that I dared to disparage your holy idol. Think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumbered here, while this honesty did appear. Anyway. I thought that he made events that could have been depicted brilliantly in the hands of say, Fitzgerald, for instance... incredibly boring. I had to read things several times before I realized that they actually were interesting. It is given three stars for a two reasons: 1) The depictions of Paris that are given at times, in the course of detailing his life. There are some particularly charming vignettes that I think are very worth the reading. 2) The pages of Fitzgerald, towards the end. It is as if some of Fitz's magic got itself into Hemingway's pen in depicting him, whether he wanted it to or not. I absolutely adored that tragic, sad section, no matter how much Hemingway wanted me to hate the man. It is worth the read if you A) like Hemingway B) Are going to Paris, or C) If you love Lost Gen writers- esp. Fitzgerald.