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Chargement... The Anglophile (Red Dress Ink Novels) (original 2005; édition 2005)par Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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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. Uninteresting, uninspired chick lit. The heroine, who is supposed to be an expert linguist, focuses more on how she looks and finding a man with a sexy British accent than her work. She and her love interest/rival are supposed to be discovering a lost language, but the idea is so poorly executed that it seems preposterous. The narrative is self-important and boring. Plus, the narrator pokes some jibes at my hometown. Hey! I'm allowed to say the weather here sucks or that it's boring, but I live here, okay? And no, the locals are not hicks. And it's not SUNY Binghamton anymore, it's Binghamton University. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Shari Diamond, a nice young Jewish girl from New York, is currently doing her Ph.D. in the dead language of Volupuk and is dating Kevin, a nice Jewish boy from New York (her mother would be proud!). But Shari, the nice young Jewish girl from New York, has a thing for British men-especially Kit the Brit, whom she sleeps with while at a conference on dead languages in Chicago, only to discover the next day that he is attending the same conference.
After much persuasion, Kit convinces Shari to visit England to meet the Volupuk guy from York, much to the dismay of Kevin. When her nice Jewish boyfriend from New York arrives in England with a ring in hand, Shari has to decide between Kit the Brit and Kevin, and decide if she is really in love or just an anglophile. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I went into this novel with such high hopes. As someone obsessed with British culture and language and a devoted reader of chick lit, I thought this novel would marry all of my favorite things in one nice, pleasant package! I wasn't expecting The Great Gatsby, but this was just pure rubbish.
Honestly, I pretty much hated it. For starters, Shari is a selfish, spoiled and self-obsessed -- and the fact that she meets Kit when she has a boyfriend and doesn't waste any time sleeping with him immediately turned me off this story. Going on a journey that spans more than three hundred pages with a character you don't like isn't exactly a good time. Still, I pushed myself to finish -- even though it felt like ripping my teeth out at points.
The plot is just . . . thin. And meandering. Everything relies upon chance and a complete suspension of belief at points -- like the fact that Kit and Shari are suddenly in a serious relationship after knowing each other for a matter of days. Um, what? And while I did enjoy the very brief tour of London and surrounding areas in the latter half of the book, I spent most of the novel confused and overwhelmed. I mean, she's traveling the world with this guy? And there's some weird subplot with a childhood friend, and then we sprint ahead a year in time out of nowhere at the end of the book and Shari's aunt has a pet skunk and there's some strange medicine swap snafu and Kit becomes some secretive, weird guy and then they meet Ringo Starr and . . .
I know, slow down. That's how I felt, too.
As much as it disappoints me to say, I'd pass on this one. There are plenty of other British (and women's fiction) books in the literary sea to waste your time on The Anglophile. ( )