by Herman Wouk, Gabra Zackman
The book started off ok, but it got tiring and rather dull pretty quickly. Lots of very long, boring conversations that didn't feel very realistic, and I lost interest in the characters fairly early on. Perhaps I would have liked it when I was younger, but it just wasn't very interesting to me now...
I tried hard, but I just can't stick it with this one. I guess I just can't read Wouk. I've tried a couple of his others. He knows how to write, but he's too long-winded for me. If you're going to like Marjorie Morningstar, you have to be familiar with (or at least care about) all the 1930s class...
Stellar read. Six-stars!
I read this book a very long time ago. Wouk is a tremendous writer. That is why one cannot help but get drawn in by this book.
Perhaps if I had read this when I was younger, I might have loved it. But Wouk has got the misogyny of his time down cold, and Marjorie is less a character than an exhibit of how girls shouldn't behave. Pleh.
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