| | This is like Giants in the Earth, except a Chinese family instead of a Norwegian family. Lots of minute detail, little sense of drive to the plot, and characters I don't really care about. Oh, but this has more bad language and sex. Soooo...that makes it worse.
The one thing I thought of today that had the potential to make this book interesting: If the man's ex-girlfriend (the woman he pines over but who always used him and treated him horribly) is to be equated with China, the country he left but still vaguely misses.
Anyway. That was interesting. But not worth-slogging-through-everything-else interesting. (At one point in the book, the main character dismisses another character's literary work as "reportage," which made me wonder what the author of A Free Life thought he was writing.)
I would have put it down a while ago if it weren't one of the last books I needed to read for the Let It Snow program. I can't believe they chose this for the One Book, One County selection.... |
| | Posted 3/27/2008 6:59 PM - 23 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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