Marjorie Morningstar
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671435981 (0671435981)
Publish date: March 3rd 1981
Publisher: Pocket Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Jewish,
Coming Of Age,
New York,
World War II
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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