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Tahmin edilebilir olmaya başladı ama yine de eğlenceli. Kendimi biraz hissediyorum, bir düşman olabilir. Bütün Gavin olayının inanılır olduğunu düşünmedim, ama ilginç hiçbiri daha az. Seth'in karakterinin nereye gittiğini seviyorum!

Bu kitap kabartmak. Eğer kabartmayı seviyorsanız, o zaman okuyun. Mutlu bir sonu var. Başladığımda hikaye hakkında heyecanlandım ve çok fazla potansiyele sahip olduğunu düşündüm, ancak daha sonra can sıkıcı bir şekilde tahmin edilebilir hale geldi ve her şey düştü. Claire'den nefret ettim çünkü o her şeye karşıydı ve değişmek konusunda çok isteksizdi. İnsanların ilişki kurabileceği bir karakter değildi ve kendisinin üstesinden gelip gerçek bir insan olmasını diliyorum. Bu, Sarah Addison Allen'ın okuduğum ikinci kitap ve lisede hayatını değiştiren bir olay geçirmiş olmalı, çünkü her iki kitabında da karakterler ağırlıklı olarak lisede olan insanlara dayanıyor. Yine, üstesinden gel ve gerçek bir insan ol. Biraz tahriş oldum ama çok yakın olduğum için bitirmeye karar verdim. Her şey sonunda küçük bir yay ile düzgün bir şekilde bağlanır, ancak birkaç f kelime ve tür seks sahnesi vardır, ancak korkunç derecede ayrıntılı değildir. Yani, tamam.

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I reread this, because it was a book club selection. The first time I read this I liked it, but was a little disappointed, as I already loved Wharton and had heard so much from people who considered this their favorite of her books, because of the outrageous, scandalous, fun heroine, who you loved to hate, or some such. The commentary in the introduction of the version one of my friends brought to book club had similar comments, stressing how Undine Spragg is so fascinating that however badly she acts, you can't help but follow her and root for her. Reading it this time, I found that I appreciated it more than I did the first time, but not because I've come around to what seems to be the conventional wisdom about Undine Spragg. She's not interesting at all, and represents a kind of vacancy in the center of the book, whereas others' (most predominently Ralph and at the very end Paul) thoughts about her and what she represents are far more intriguing. But that doesn't make the book uninteresting at all -- the notion of what drives Undine, how she forms her ideas, such as they are (the media is a significant presence), and why she is such a vacancy (the comments that Bowen makes about women and "the custom of the country" come in here, and it's notable that ever though the book is set later, the lack of women characters who can really come to a meeting of minds with someone like Ralph is even more extreme than in Age of Innocent, but I think the comments that Chelles makes later about America and her Apex background is more significant). Anyway, I would highly recommend this book and found it beautifully written and stylistically interesting in ways not gone into in these comments, but I think I'm just never going to love it the way some others do, and the way I do some of her other books.

In Paige Shelton’s latest novel, Fruit of All Evil: A Farmer’s Market Mystery, Shelton delivers up a tasty blend of believable characters, country charm and, naturally, a mysterious murder that will leave you wondering who the culprit is to the very end.

I know this book is a love-it-or-hate-it type. I know lots of people who said that, after Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is just a knock-off of the same thing. I disagree. EiI Has a very interesting story to it. Several of them, it seems. But it just doesn't feel as true, as sincere, as EL&IC. I really felt more like Foer was trying to manipulate me through this book, like he was trying to evoke certain reactions--by turns joy, sadness, horror--through his characters. He's obviously a talented man and he wrote a very good book; I enjoyed EiI a lot. But it feels like the first book by a talented man, and I'm very glad I started with Extremely Loud.