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Title: The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits ISBN: 0-399-15049-8 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: smart, fun, energetic, and unlike anything else
Comment: I'm blown away by Julavits's imagination, word play, and insight into sisterly relationships. This is an important book for anyone who loves literature. Julavits takes risks in her writing that few other writers do.
Rating: 5
Summary: a case-study comedy
Comment: Heidi Julavits (the author) creates a cast of memorable characters by sharing their "shame stories" as sidebars to the engaging main plot...a post "Big Terrible" hijacking by a plane steward and a blind terrorist...or is it all staged? The rivalrous/devoted relationship of sisters Alice and Edith make the story believable despite its unlikely circumstances. I don't have a sister; this book makes me feel equally cheated and grateful that I don't.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Title Says It All
Comment: I was given this book by a girl in attempt to impress me with her literary choices. As I told her I spend weekeings reading.
I wasn't. Subsequently, I becamed worried about my newspaper's hiring practices as we both work for the local paper.
After reading 40+ pages the only thing I could think of is that The Effects Of Living Backwards must result in writing like this. Which is awful. I read some of the other reviews and didn't realize this book had such polirizing qualities, which is even more ironic than the title; as it attempts to tackle terrorism which could produce an intriguing book, but treats the subject matter in a juvenile manner that reminds me of coversations in the vein of "what if" situations that I had when I was stoned out of my mind in high school.
For instance:
A man takes a bong hit.
He says, "Hey man, what if a blind man hijacked a plane."
His friend takes a hit and says, "Yeah, like all terrorists don't see what's really going on, man."
Both men congradulate themselves for thinking in such profound terms.
I hope Ms. Julavits can straighten out her life and write in a more serious tone. I'm sure her publisher would appreciate it.
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Title: Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy ISBN: 0743244354 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida ISBN: 1400040272 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits ISBN: 0425179826 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum ISBN: 0670032131 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel by Zoe Heller ISBN: 0805073337 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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