Laura Rider's Masterpiece CD: Laura Rider's Masterpiece CD (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
The best thing about this book is its cover. The story inside, unfortunately, lacks any semblance of the charm or interest excited by the jacket design. For a story that purports to be about writing, it is ironic that the characters are so badly drawn. All three of the main characters in the story's love triangle behave more like aliens than regular human beings. None of their emotions feel genuine, and their behavior makes each of the so unlikable that the reader doesn't really care at all about the outcome of their situation. It is possible that the author herself realized this fact, and that is why she did not bother to put much work into creating an ending. None of the characters are different people at the end of the book, the only thing that has changed is their relative levels of happiness or unhappiness, none of which appears to be in the least deserved. I thought it was funny. (Didn’t know the author & had no expectations. I thought of the book as something in the vein of Christopher Moore. I didn’t realize until just now, as I was checking the reviews, that people were let down.)“Laura got the idea to write a romance novel starring an unspecified "Every Woman" when she heard a literary historian interviewed on a public radio program starring her idol, Jenna Faroli, who has recently moved with her husband to Laura and Charlie's small town. When Laura finally meets Jenna, and when Jenna and Charlie hit it off after a chance meeting, Laura has a spark of inspiration. What if she could follow all the formulas in her "how to write a romance" guidebooks, to manufacture a textbook romance --- in real life? The expected, often hilarious, complications ensue when Charlie (and Laura) woos Jenna via e-mail, and when worldly Jenna finds herself oddly drawn to Charlie's exuberance, naïveté and powerful sexual charms. Will Charlie and Jenna's love affair be the masterpiece Laura envisions? Or will the yarns she's spinning ravel out of control?”
What do You think about Laura Rider's Masterpiece CD: Laura Rider's Masterpiece CD (2009)?
I'm a fan of Jane Hamilton's and she has fun here with this comic novel. An enjoyable read.
—tsuguino
I...tried...to...read. I got thru 2 chapters and abandoned it. I didn't like it at all. :(
—krlaustria
Quirky little story. Laugh-out-loud at times. Very different from her other novels.
—jerrod
