I read this book with Rowena so I'm writing with the benefit of her illuminating comments. You can read her review here.3.5 starsThe book is divided into sections narrated by different characters. Our first storyteller is Leah, a young white woman from North West London with Irish parents, married t...
I picked this up because White Teeth is one of my favorite books in the world. I greatly admire Zadie Smith as an author and intellectual and NW fits right in with her style. Written in sections of narratives from different perspectives, she weaves several individuals together in ways I never saw co...
I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!Zadie Smith's NW has been compared to lots of different works:Mrs. Dalloway, Ulysses, Te...
I loved Zadie’s first book, White Teeth, which she wrote when she was only 23 years old. I may be wrong but I feel that with this book Smith was trying to distance herself from her 23 year old self. This book introduces us to several residents of the northwest of London. There’s Leah who isn’t conte...
One of those books where you're reading and reading and waiting for the big dramatic ending at the end and then you turn the page and the book is over and you feel pretty much nothing at all. Meh. I liked it up until then, though, so maybe the two stars is unfair, but honestly it just left me feelin...
This is the book I was supposed to never finish, abandon halfway through, and not like. Add to that the fact that I simply could not get through White Teeth when it first came out. But. That was 12 years ago. Apparently I am a different person know, or maybe Smith is a different writer, maybe both. ...
I loved this book.I loved "White Teeth" but with genius debuts you never know if the experience will be repeated. Her second "Autograph Man" I didn't really enjoy, too much abstruse Kabbalah and obscure symbolism, trying too hard.The third "on Beauty" i enjoyed but found a bit of a slog in parts, ma...
Bounced off this fairly quickly. Unlike [b:White Teeth|3711|White Teeth|Zadie Smith|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327899698s/3711.jpg|7480], the writing is painfully pretentious and ponderous.
Whether it's the perfect capturing of London patois, the textual experimentation that feels like modern life, or the vivid range of issues in this could-be-a-state-of-the-species novel.... I can't say it any better than I do over at RB (http://wp.me/sGVzJ-nw) but the short version is that this novel...
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