[ebooktalk] Re: The Slap.
- From: "Mandy Palmer" <Mandy.Palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:04:09 +0100
Hi Shell, I found The Slap wierd and I am in the middle of Freedom on my
pocket at the moment, I'm not really enjoying it but have got as far as the
last part, I bought it from Audible, that I feel I should finish it. But it
is a strange book and I don't actually see the point in it.
Love Mandy X
From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Shell
Sent: 29 April 2013 21:54
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] The Slap.
I really did not enjoy The Slap. By the end of the book I could not care
less what any of them did or thought.
I find I can't abide books which depend on going into the deep psychology of
what everyone is thinking and pages of anxt about who should sleep with who
and why. The minute pulling apart of all the relationships and self
analysis just seems so tedious to me. We read it for our book club and no
one really liked it apart from one lady who loved it. The same lady loved
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, which had the same effect on the rest of us.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 7:26 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Televising books.
> The problem I had with the characters in The Slap wasn't so much that I
didn't like them, I could find no sympathy for any of them and, as I said in
an earlier post, they all deserved each other and whatever was going to
happen to them. Unlikeable characters can bring a whole other dimension to
a story, but if they are all hateful you're left with nowhere to go.
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