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Chargement... Office Girl (2012)par Joe Meno
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is possibly the worst book i've ever read. I made it halfway through and just can't want to finish it. ( ) Bad, bad, bad. And worse - boring. Reads like stuff written by a high school student who got too much encouragement in English class and not enough criticism. Or someone who thought his journals were really deep. Too much time spent describing outfits and physical features and not enough time making the main characters relatable. I didn't finish it. It gets two stars because at least it used proper grammar and sentence structure. But otherwise terrible. Office Girl, I suppose, could be seen as a rather whiny book at times. Instead, I found it to be about two lost souls who somehow find each other in a setting that is anything but romantic. No one here is exactly admirable or even very likable, but the characters are real and the fact that they are deeply flawed only adds to the power of this messy little book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:This quirky tale of two young artists in love in 1990s Chicago is "a gorgeous little indie romance . . . A sweetheart of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews). In the last year of the twentieth century, Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his out-of-date tape recorder. Together they decide to start their own art movement, in defiance of a contemporary culture made dull by both the tedious and the obvious. Set just before the end of one world and the beginning of another, this is the story of two people trying to capture a moment in the face of an uncertain future. Named a Best Book of the Year by Daily Candy and chosen as a favorite fiction work of the year in The Believer's readers' poll, Office Girl "reads as a parody of art-school types . . . and as a tribute to their devil-may-care spirit" (The New York Times Book Review). "Mr. Meno excels at capturing the way that budding love can make two people feel brave and freshly alive to their surroundings . . . The story of the relationship has a sweet simplicity." â??The Wall Street Journal "Meno's tender, hip, funny, and imaginative portrayal of two Chicago misfits . . . dramatizes that anguished and awkward passage between legal age and actual adulthood." â??Booklist Features black-and-white illustrations by artist Cody Hudson and photographs by Todd Baxter Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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