Don't read this if you're in a long term relationship that is in difficulties, especially if you are stuck in a dull job as well: it may be too pertinent. That caveat aside, it's not a depressing book: as with all his books (which all have strong autobiographical elements) there is cold beauty in th...
When I saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, my very first thoughts afterward were: "That was AMAZING but I am never ever ever going to sit through that again as long as I live."So.Exceedingly well-crafted and inventive (I loved the scenes where Frank imagines in real-time how he'll describe what's h...
Revolutionary Road was published in 1961 and is a remarkably insightful novel, perhaps as much proto-feminist as it is pre-postmodernist. The book is so honestly told that it reads as much a product of our time as one of the past, and with the compulsion to put the novel to film, 47 years after it ...
this is the perfect time for all of you out there to read this book. pick it up, sit in a comfy chair in front of the fire with a blanket and a cup of tea or hot chocolate, and let yourself sink into his pages. this is a book that i wanted to really read in one sitting, in front of that fire i men...
The audio version was excellent. This was one where I sat in the car after I'd reached my destination, HAVING to know what happened next. Will have to check out the movie version.
As much as I'd like to sugar-coat this review with admiration for Yates writing style, I can't. I absolutely hated this book. I disliked almost everything about it, characters (and believe me I usually can get into books with pathetic characters), plot, setting, everything. It seemed like some long ...
On my fling-o-meter scale, Revolutionary Road is a well-traveled book, having been flung (why does this past participle sound so ungainly?) across the room several times. The initial trip occurred when Richard Yates gratuitously threw in this bit of over-writing in the first chapter: At first their ...
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