Anders Rogovoy itibaren Leninskiy, Sverdlovskaya oblast', Russia

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2018-12-31 20:41

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This is a very strange novel, a satire that isn't funny and a portrait of divorce and heartbreak that just doesn't ring true. George Mellish is the son of an old time Jewish movie mogul, someone like Jack Warner. George is sent to the best prep schools (in the Fifties and Sixties) and tries to see himself as a WASP gentleman, a scholar athlete, a sportsman, etc. He's kind of like Don Draper, or Jay Gatsby. But he lacks all personal magnetism. Girls cheat on him, his buddies laugh at him, and he rebels in petty ways like urinating in a camp counselor's office. But he doesn't change. As part of his aspirations to gentrify himself, George goes to Oxford in the early sixties, where he meets Irene Trewin, the shrill, spoiled, deeply neurotic and unhappy daughter of a cold and distant English lord. George falls madly in love with Irene, woos her against all odds, and takes her back to suburban Connecticut, where he becomes a successful young television executive. This should be the happy ending, but as the Sixties spin out of control George's life falls apart as well. His wife Irene turns out to be a needy, whiny, childlike creature who refuses to honor George's achievements and has no interest in either starting a career or being a conventional wife and mother. She cheats on him, first with a wealthy WASP neighbor and later with a sexy rock star who is featured in one of George's hit television shows. The tone of all this is meant to be satirical, yet it's never funny, and the cheap shots at rock and roll stars are remarkably childish. There's no substantive discussions of feminism, Civil Rights, or the Vietnam War, just a lot of whining from George about the way his "betters" don't behave better. There's no way to say this nicely, but the failure of this book is simply the basic inability of John Lahr to either create believable characters you can care about or come up with genuinely witty satire. These characters are always in pain, but you don't feel it. Lahr holds all of them up to ridicule, yet nothing they do is really all that funny. Guess he should have just stuck to being a theater critic.

2019-01-01 00:41

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I was really looking forward to this book. It had an interesting premise. I've always had a fondness for mysteries, and there's just not enough of them in the young adult genre. I was hoping it might live up to what I had build up in my mind. I initially like the characters. Hannah and Colin seemed to be your typical teenagers, especially when it comes to their relationship. They're high school sweethearts that are beginning to feel the stress of what might happen after Colin lives for college. Especially since Hannah seems to have trouble repeatingg that 4 letter word that Colin has already said. I'm not sure why she thought a weekend away would help cure this problem. I disliked how Hannah behaved to get the weekend planned. Stealing and lying seemed completely out of character. It made me wonder why she was trying so hard. It's like that last ditch effort to save something you are afraid of losing. I did like to setup of the lake house. It was down right creepy how the house seemed lived in, even though nobody had been there for quite awhile. And the nearest town was weird. I kept expecting this idea that they had traveled into some alternate universe. Might have worked better that way (a sort of Stephen King type thing). But, the truth of the story seriously left me wanting. I felt like I wasn't getting the whole story. What I felt like happened didn't quite fit with what I was being told, especially since there's an alternating story buried in there as well. In the end, I wasn't sure who to believe. I wondered if the way the story was ended was leaving it open for a sequel. Not sure, if I really want to go there. Overall, it was ok. If you expect a lot from your mysteries, I probably wouldn't read this one. If your just looking for something to creep you out a little bit, I think this would do it.

Okuyucu Anders Rogovoy itibaren Leninskiy, Sverdlovskaya oblast', Russia

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