Zadie Smith’s White Teeth is a multi-layered, thought-provoking and extremely funny novel that tackles timely and sensitive topics with a rare, nuanced touch. Archie Jones is the archetypical Everyman-a working-class man with low ambitions and a seemingly simplistic view of the world. As White Tee...
This book is a mix of races, religions and ages. It follows two families. The men were in a war together. They marry and have kids. The kids then grow up with their issues. You get everyone's thoughts on things as time passes. It honestly took me a good while to get into the story. I did end up liki...
Tastes. Despite what some may lead you to believe, tastes are subjective. Take, for example, various magazines' declarations of “Sexiest” so-and-so. You know what—none of my biggest celebrity crushes have ever grazed those covers. Why? Because I'm an individual with a unique idea of “sexy.” Yet, som...
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. I think this is my favourite Zadie Smith novel. She has a wonderful way with words and I love the themes she's always tackling. In this one, she looks at immigrants: the difficulties being a PoC in a white-dominated society, esp...
The novel deals with two families connected by the friendship of their fathers which goes back to World War II. Archie Jones, who in the opening pages attempted suicide, soon after meets and marries a girl less than half his age, Clara Bowden. She's a girl of Jamaican extraction raised as a Jehovah'...
This book reminded me a lot of The Casual Vacancy, though this book has of course been published much earlier. It only gets 3 stars for the same reason TCV did. Great writing, realistic characters, written dialects, great building up towards the end, and then... Nothing. This book seemed to have muc...
On the basis of my personal enjoyment of reading this book, it's a solid three stars. I've debated a bit with giving it four stars because I loved the themes present, and the messages and points it was trying to make, but overall I just didn't like it enough to warrant four stars.By far the best par...
Great read! The characters are quirky and the voice is genuinely funny. Zadie Smith does an amazing job in her debut novel writing about the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants in London. Looking forward to reading her later works.
A short review: Gravity's Hounslow (might be too-high praise!)A bit longer review: in another book of Smith's ([b:Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays|6425404|Changing My Mind Occasional Essays|Zadie Smith|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347719350s/6425404.jpg|6614734]) she defines two types of author...
Too long and too many annoying characters. I loved Neena, her girlfriend and Irie most of the time. Until Irie did something really stupid in the end.All those religious fanatics with Hortense being the worst of all, so annoying!
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