Saturday, December 21, 2019

Fleishman is in Trouble (and so is this Book!)


Fleishman Is in Trouble

Fleishman is in Trouble 
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
1/5 stars


Well, another book I just did not like at all.
I just felt like this book was the equivalent of literary masturbation.
A lot of the time I simply could not figure out who the narrator was,
(WHY not just start the chapters by noting WHO is speaking and what day it is?? 

One of my pet peeves ) and even when I could, none of the characters were likable, 
and they all seemed so self-indulgent and whiny.
I guess I just basically rejected the whole premise of this book which was that marriages can't be happy, and that "if you are a smart woman, you cannot stand by and remain sane once you fully understand, as a smart person does, the constraints of this world on a woman."
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. Fleishman Is in Trouble (p. 368). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

I feel like the last few books I've read are so incredibly poorly written, that it is simply shocking. I just don't know how this drivel gets published.
I am absolutely aching for a decent story that I can at least give 3 or 4 stars to, where there is a coherent narrative thread, and gasp! maybe a chronological story actually told.
There were entire chapters of this book where the story was just repeated over and over.
I get that it was to illustrate the mental breakdown of the character in question,
but it was just tedious to read by the third or fourth go round.
and I still don't know WHO the hell she was talking to.
I can NOT recommend this book at all. 


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