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I just found a sample of Lorrie Moore's latest novel, A Gate at the Stairs, on Amazon.com. It's supposedly from the point of view of a college student looking for work.
Please, o all-wise flist, go read the first few pages. Then tell me if I'm completely crazy to find this critically lauded book a precious, pretentious, oh-so-literary creation that bears as much resemblance to the inner monologue of a college student looking for work as it does to the collected works of Marie Corelli?
Thank you.
Please, o all-wise flist, go read the first few pages. Then tell me if I'm completely crazy to find this critically lauded book a precious, pretentious, oh-so-literary creation that bears as much resemblance to the inner monologue of a college student looking for work as it does to the collected works of Marie Corelli?
Thank you.
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My reaction
Date: 2011-04-20 04:01 pm (UTC)From:Some of her details made me go "Huh?" (Umm... cloudy plasma from eating cheese? Really? Also, I can state from experience someone being two inches taller than you is NOT enough of a height difference to see up their nostrils - not that most of us would even try....)
Plus, having *not* read the introduction I had no idea what this book was about. I mean, I don't even have an idea as to genre. In my (maybe not-so-humble) opinion, one should give a clue to that in the first few pages, right?
So, yeah.