I watched the film they made from this book last weekend and found it to be absolutely haunting. I simply cannot stop thinking about it. I have to get a copy of this. Chances are it's even more masterful then the film.
I've seen the movie first before I discovered that it was actually a novel. And I was very intrigued why Kevin acts that way so I read the book. I love the book in a way that I see myself in Kevin (but not the murderous type)...
I was really excited to read this book. I thought it was going to be one of those really thought provoking studies of character, and in some ways it was, but then other times... She really knows how to talk doesn't she? Eva goes on and on and on.... and I'll have read a page, go back over it and rea...
2.5Boring until the last quarter. Having seen Perks, imagining Kevin with the same actor as Patrick, many things did not compute.It got really good twoards the ending.
I'm still going to be thinking about this years from now. This isn't the type of book people say they "love", but what it does is amazing. Full review to come. If I don't forget.
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.htmlWe Need To Talk About Kevin is the story of a killer and his mother. This book begins about three days shy of Kevin's eighteenth birthday. His mother Eva is telling the story through lett...
One faithful Thursday in 1999 three days before his sixteenth birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian kills seven students in his school as well as a cafeteria worker and a teacher. During the aftermath of the shooting and trails, his mother, Eva, visits him in prison while she writes long letters to her abs...
This is an uncomfortable read. It is like you are peering right into someone’s soul, maybe someone you know and maybe you don’t always like what you see. Still there are things to like here, things that every one not familiar with this tale would recognize. Good things. Sadly they are pretty muc...
I don't know. While the book is well-written and I really liked some of Eva's maternity and critical thinking (even though she was, as the author described her, very hard to like), something just didn't feel right to me about the combination of the letter format, the on purpose "hard to like" charac...
I've started this review 6 times now, and each time, I've deleted it because it doesn't quite convey the right thing. I think the problem is that I'm not sure just what that thing is. But one thing I do know is that I love books that make me feel like this... that "I don't know what I need to say bu...
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