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She said she said she said

Revisado: 05-29-22

Repetition unnecessary “she/character name said.” Yikes. Maybe reader could have used her great reading of characters as executive license to skip them all. those?

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The museum of broken relationships blew my mind

Revisado: 10-23-20

The above essay was so like a tone poem that I was swept away for days after, with reflections coming back to me randomly as I worked thru these quotidian days.

The rest varied — she explores things that many others have visited before her with perhaps more freshness than she has. And the drama of the title has no connection whatsoever with the contents and makes the collection land a little more flat. I think the most disappointing was the essay she wrote about an already tired trope: making assumptions and judgements about strangers and then realizing they are more complex than you thought. I listen while driving so I don’t skip past things the way I might with an atom-based book but no new insights arrived even at the end.

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Blech.

Revisado: 02-17-13

What disappointed you about The Racketeer?

The characters were irritating; their backstories were shallow and there was no one to connect with.

What was most disappointing about John Grisham’s story?

The stupid plot. Someone called it "borderline annoying." No, just annoying. It felt like a plot without people, that he spent so much time coming up with a cleverly unfolding plot that he lost track of whether readers/llisteners would care in the first place. I didn't, and it was not suspenseful at all, either. You just listened knowing that the author was showing off how great he is cooking up a twisty plot, but with 2-D characters. It felt nothing more than egotistical, actually.

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