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Chargement... How to Kill a Rock Star (édition 2005)par Tiffanie DeBartolo (Auteur)
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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. 4.5 / 5 I rarely leave comments or write a review after reading a book. I decide on my rating and move on. I'm a reader, not a writer. I have to leave a comment on the characters in this book though. They were written in a unique way, a smorgasbord of personalities. My favorites were Paul and John the Baptist. All the characters were well developed though and unique in their own way. I really enjoyed this book and will watch for more from this author. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. Eliza's reverence for rock is equaled only by Paul's, and the two fall wildly in love. When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza must make a heartbreaking decision that leads to Paul's sudden disappearance and a surprise knock-your-socks-off ending.Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole"From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."--People"Honest, raw, and engaging."--Booklist"This generation's Love Story."--Kirkus ReviewsGod-Shaped Hole was a Book Sense Top 10 Paperback Selection. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While this novel explores many of my favorite things- like fate, loss, and love- and it is set against a rock music backdrop- which should have been right up my alley- the book didn’t hit the right notes for me.
The story follows Eliza, a journalist who wants to write about rock music. Her brother is in a rock band called Bananafish and it is through him that she meets Paul. Despite being complete opposites the two begin seeing each other- but things go awry when Paul does something Eliza thinks compromises his integrity as a musician.
I believe this book might have been inspired, at least in part, by the author’s relationship with musician, Jeff Buckley. It’s a sort of homage to music and touches on music as an art form, rather than a commodity- again all things that should have appealed to me-
But I was not a fan of the execution. The author does capture time and place very well, the secondary characters were well-drawn. Unfortunately, Eliza and Paul…. Not so much. I never warmed up to Paul and I just couldn’t muster up a connection to Eliza- despite my best efforts to do so. Putting these characters together as a romantic couple fell flat - zero chemistry. Then comes all the melodrama- which can work for me- but just didn’t go over well in this case.
Then came the ending. Boy, was I ticked. I can do ambiguous- in fact, I’m often a fan of that approach. Open endings can allow me to give the book the ending I want it to have- but in this case it was not a good look… at all.
Overall, I have enjoyed some of this author’s work in the past and will certainly be open to reading more of her work in the future- but this one was a miss all the way around.
1.5 stars ( )