by Andrew Sean Greer
"We are each the love of someone's life." It took me well over a hundred pages to fall in love with Max Tivoli, but I did. I fell in love with his sad, sentimental story. And Alice didn't deserve him. But I'm glad he got to know his son. The setting of time and place were perfect for this story. Ama...
Thought-provoking...and very sad.
Recommended to me by a friend, this is a good book - but not one that really suited my mood this week. It's a melancholy musing on the futility of love.The narrator, Max Tivoli, was born appearing to be a wizened old man of 70 - and for his entire life, ages backwards, gaining perspective and experi...
“I just wanted the main character to die so that the book would be over.” – a fellow book club memberSo, I didn’t feel quite that strongly about Max, but I did return it to the library as soon as I was finished, and I did thank the book gods that I hadn’t bought it. I was so anxious to be done with ...
It is a delicate task to write a book in which the main character repeatedly ruins the life of and frightens almost to death another major character and to make that protagonist sympathetic. You understand why he does what he does, you see how he fools himself into believing the consequences of his ...
Which came first: Max Tivoli or TimeTraveler's Wife? The truth is that to me it doesn't really matterwhich was published first; what matters is what I read first and thatwas Time Traveler's Wife. Consequently, Max feels like an uglieryounger sister.Max is the story of a man whose body ages backwards...
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