Monday 22 October, 2007
Ouch
I haven't yet read Alice Seabold's new novel, The Almost Moon but this review of said novel has to be the cruelest review I've read in years. 'This novel is so morally, emotionally and intellectually incoherent that it's bound to become a best seller. . . "The Almost Moon" is really like one very long MySpace page. . . ' and it gets worse, much worse. It's possible, of course, that the reviewer is right, but I just read it imagining what it would be like to be on the recieving end of it. (Though I kind of was, once, in The Guardian: 'Sophie Cunningham fills the pages of Geography, her unforgivably tedious study of erotic obsession, with thrusting and throbbing and panting.')
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Views from the Floor
Chris Boyd says:
That cruel review made me want to read the book. (I think it was the line about Lolita -- "Nabokov’s tediously multilayered novel" -- that did it for me!) Almost Moon is now at the top of the pile. (It was under the latest Top Ten of Everything... ahem!)
sophie says:
I'll be keen to know what you think. I confess the review put me off. I read - and loved - The Lovely Bones but can see how the author could fall off the rails.
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