Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Story of a Marriage- Greer (Book #14)

After a nice high of awesome reading it figured I'd hit a dud. This book makes me cringe even when I think of it. The voice of the MC does not resonate as authentic to me, the plot is unbelievable, and the writing is... UGH. It's not that the guy writes bad, its just that he uses sooooooo many similes and metaphors that it is beyond overkill. She sees her husband sleeping, and then we are subjected to ten metaphors of how he is sleeping, like a cat on a perch near a mountain top while thinking of mice. (Not in the book, but you get the idea). In theory this could have been an interesting story, and some of his insights were nice, but for the most part this was a novel by an author thoroughly in love with the sound of his own voice.

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