What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Reading it now.ShannonHBC wrote: ↑24 Mar 2019, 15:53 I read Why Can't Johnny Just Quit? by Kyle Oh and I gave it 2 out of 4 stars.
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Sure, the class of his immense literary skills is on full display, but the story idea is totally uninspiring.
It is the story of an aspiring writer (Kif) who, desperate for funds (his wife is due to give birth to twins), agrees to ghost write an autobiography for a notorious criminal (Ziggy Heidl), about to be tried and likely to be sent to jail for a very long stretch.
But Ziggy is completely weird, and won't cooperate with Kif in providing details for the book. So, Kif just makes it up from a few bare-bones details at this disposal.
The last 50 or so pages, a summary of the decades of Kif's life after the publication of his book, are gratuitous and pointless, and are just filler to make the novel thicker - pretty much like Kif's "autobiography" of Ziggy Heidl.
I really hope that Richard Flanagan comes up with a better idea for a novel next time, because he is such a great writer, and First Person is well below his normal standard, which is such a shame.
3 stars out of 5
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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