and so out of tune with her own sexuality that it's painful to read her desperate attempts at inking passion or love. She's more catholic than Tom Clancy if that's possible. To call these things characters would imply that they had some.Īside from Truth and Beauty, I would stay away from anything written by Ann Patchett. Matchstick characters are globbed together with gooey dialogue that spills from their cardboard souls.Įverybody's so goddamned pious, righteous and waxen that you pray for an axe-wielding murderer to crop up and start hacking the shit out of these uber-annoying stick figures and their politically correct lives. Sainted mothers come in black and white issues of race and grief receive a sponge-over paint job that would make Bob Ross' happy little tree's wilt and die. Everybody's so goddamned pious, righteous and waxen that you pray for an axe-wielding murderer to crop up and start hacking the shit out of these uber-annoying stick figure This claptrap pile of PC bullshit was built for Oprah's Book Snub. Matchstick characters are globbed together with gooey dialogue that spills from their cardboard souls.
This claptrap pile of PC bullshit was built for Oprah's Book Snub.
for better and for worse.īooks set in boston are permanently my weakness. This book is shallow and most unforgivably of all.saccharine!īottom line: ann patchett contains multitudes. The top reviews of this book are extremely obnoxious, pretentious, and almost disturbingly unfunny.but they are not wrong. tbr review b pro: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books!Ĭon: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books. this book is shallow and most unforgivably of all.saccharine! bottom line: ann patchett contains multitudes. the top reviews of this book are extremely obnoxious, pretentious, and almost disturbingly unfunny.but they are not wrong. Pro: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books! con: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books.
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