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Fates and furies goodreads

See Featured Authors Answering Questions. Denise Bogard asked:. To answer questions about Fates and Furies , please sign up. Guineveruca I am relieved to see this question. I'm 2 chapters in and, while it's an easy enough read, there is nothing enjoyable about the book. The writing is highly contrived and does nothing to make the main character sympathetic or even interesting. Life just sort of happens to this charmed-yet-cursed make up your mind already boy. The set up for the marriage that is supposed to be this amazing relationship between these amazing people? Don't care. I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to plow through, or if this will be another Lovely Bones, where a really terrible book gets inexplicable accolades from all corners. If I have to wait until the 2nd half of the book before things improve, no thanks. This is someone with a thesaurus writing the Cliffs Notes to an angsty melodrama.

Because, perhaps, it's becoming harder to entertain in the soap opera world and don't even get me going on the opera angle in this book!

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Account Options Ieiet. Fates and Furies : A Novel. Lauren Groff. Penguin , Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives.

Fates and furies goodreads

January 04, From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia , an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.

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I found the book a …more I'm not sure what you mean by bad prose. There's probably a great novel to be had in juxtaposing the divergent perspectives of the man and the woman in a single marriage. Then the voice changed from husband to wife and I was much more drawn in and really liked it a lot. This is absolutely an epic fantasy with a heavy dose of romance tangled intricately into its plot and Helen is a master at this genre. You get to see some of his plays, the career he is almost blessed to have after his wealthy mother disowns him for marrying beneath him. Even the title would imply we're dealing with a book with lofty pretensions. I felt it held a lot of promise at the start, and there were some smart reflections on marriage and family relationships. With its blend of steamy romance, pulse-pounding action, and intricate world-building, it's a book that will keep readers hooked until the very end and ravenous for more. Thea is absolutely MFC goals! Seriously: a car wreck at mph and no real injury at all. Without the details, we are all prone to glimpses of pretty strangers, to the lie that theirs is a perfect life, to the belief that happiness is on the other side of our mundane fences. I'm sobbing just thinking about him being there but I'm so glad Talemir showed up in the end, so we can have him on our side moving forward. Overall, this book was a mess of contradictions in a really good way. Spanning decades, oceans and the whole economic scale from indigence to opulence, this novel holds within its grasp the story of one extraordinary marriage. I was expecting better with all the hype.

Like Gone Girl, this tightly controlled portrait of a cruel and impossible relationship pivots on a shift in perspective. I t starts with honeymoon sex on a cold New England beach, and ends with lonely old age in London decades later. Also, how many people were watching them, how beautiful he and Mathilde looked together.

Fates and Furies feels like a book for readers who genuinely enjoy the exploration of language and metaphor, and do not require some kind of emotional connection with the characters or story. Welcome back. It's another case of throwing every word you know, whether it actually makes sense or not - but never mind, it looks impressive. This is about that for sure. Yep, that's just hilarious, isn't it? I can hear the birds sing, I can smell the freshly cut grass, I can feel the breeze on my face It is for a book group so I continued. The rest of them are just pretentious hipster assholes. I am listening to the audiobook version. This instalment really packs an emotional punch whilst also upping the intrigue and action. At one point, Groff provides a list of the items in massive garbage heap floating in the sea: "Spin of bottles and flip-flops and zip ties and packing peanuts and boas and baby-doll heads and false eyelashes and inflatable taxidermy. I can smell it, like Lotto can smell the garbage Mathilde hasn't taken out in his absence, because the garbage is his chore. I'm 60 pages into Fates and Furies and not sure if I want to continue. Or will it end in a heartbreaking, deadly showdown? I am so angry that this book, so highly touted and so extravagantly praised 1.