Un nuevo ejemplo de escritores que disfrutan alargando inútilmente sus novelas, para mayor gloria de las empresas de transportes (que tarifan según el peso de los bultos) y en perjuicio de la selva amazónica, que ve disminuir a pasos agigantados la reserva forestal para imprimir cienes y cienes de l...
***Very adult themed novel. I do not recommend this for anyone under the age of 21***Catherine is the worst sort of woman out there. But she markets herself as a reliable woman who would make a good wife. She answers an ad placed in a paper by Ralph Truitt and soon is on her way across country via t...
Robert Goolrick's memoir "THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT" reads as much as a confessional as it does a way for him to understand himself, his family, and the influence -- both good and ill -- his parents exerted on him throughout his life. Goolrich grew up in Virginia during the 1950s and 1960s....
In this semi-autobiographical novel, author Robert Goolrick takes us to Wall Street in the boom era of the 1980s. For those men on the Street, life was a never ending party. Loose women, fast cars, high fashion, and an endless supply of drugs and alcohol fueled their nights. But it was also the adve...
I kind of can't be bothered reviewing this one. In place of an actual review, I shall paraphrase the comment I made at the 64% mark, which pretty well sums up my reading experience:Reading this book was like being bludgeoned over the head with the Literary Hammer of Impending DOOM. And remember, f...
Told in two parts, A Reliable Wife is about the arranged marriage between Ralph Truitt and Catherine Land. I gave this book 3.5 stars which I rounded up to 4 stars on Goodreads. As I read, I went through a myriad of reactions in response to Ralph and Catherine. Ralph at times would evoke sympathy i...
Heading out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick was a book I purchased for my kindle by mistake and thought what the heck will give it a go as the process of retuning it just seemed like too much bother. I was pleasantly surprised after reading the first chapter of this novel as the prose, the characte...
A lie from the first moment they met....Ralph knew she wasn't the girl he had placed an ad for. But Catherine never thought twice about how she lied to this man she was going to marry and how her destitute life before Ralph made her such a phony…but the lying didn't even faze her. Her life befor...
Until I write a review: my gushy response for Literary Wives on this book: http://unabridged-expression.blogspot.com/2013/07/literary-wives-reliable-wife-by-robert.html
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