How To Buy A Love Of Reading (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I wasn't going to give this a 4. It was going to be something just over 3. I started out hating the characters and their lives, just kept reading to witness the train wreck. The literary references annoyed me; I found the cover blurb's "bibliophile" (Hunter) pretentious and unrealistic, thought the plot was silly. But I kept reading. Somewhere past the midpoint I began to really care about Carley and wonder if she could indeed find her way out of this sad story, like one of her old Choose Your Own Adventures. Because I was compelled to keep reading, because there were so many characters I was "rooting" for (even though I knew not all of them could be saved), and because it made me think about literary devices and the telling of stories, i gave this a 4. Quote that stayed with me:"i get ur point about how people cant save each other for real.but I still think we need stories that tell us we can.just so we wont stop trying." (sic) It took me forever to finish this book partly because I hated reading it yet was compelled to finish it. I was disgusted by the self absorbed, narcissistic parents in this book and repelled by the overly obtuse writing in the parts that were "literary." However I did feel compelled to get to the end of the story because I, like the main character, didn't want the ending that was foreshadowed and hoped that I would be proved wrong. I'm sure that the society laid out in the book does exist in some wealthy communities but it did truly repulse me while I still like the teenagers and the characters who were writers. In the end I gave it a 3 more for the story that the writing style.
What do You think about How To Buy A Love Of Reading (2009)?
I wanted to like this but after two cds the reader was grating. I might pick it up the book later.
—harmonRLI
Sobbing uncontrollably at work while finishing this book is probably really unprofessional.
—Sucooldiva
darker than I expected. made me want to re read the great gatsby.
—dcpont
I feel like I should re-read the Great Gatsby.
—yarzar
