50 in '10: #11
May. 25th, 2010 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Title: The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
Length: 337 pages
Well, I'd been intrigued by the trailers for the film the same way I was intrigued for another film based off another story of the author's. (You may have heard of it. Little thing called "Brokeback Mountain.") Which is to say that I never actually saw the film. (Either of them. Get over it.) But the paperback caught my eye at the library the other day while I was looking for another author in the "P"s. (Ellis Peters.) So I grabbed it, despite my usual distaste for Gen Lit. (It tends to be pretentious and depressing, so I tend to be avoidant.)
And I ended up pleasantly surprised. Well, I shouldn't've been surprised, I supposed, given that the author's good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize. But after reacting negatively to a couple of Proulx's grammar quirks, I ended up drawn into the story and going along at a rapid clip. The only bad thing I draw out of the book, in fact, is how quickly the book is wrapped up, turned in the process into something that Hints Very Strongly at magical realism.
Verdict: Recommended.
Author: Annie Proulx
Length: 337 pages
Well, I'd been intrigued by the trailers for the film the same way I was intrigued for another film based off another story of the author's. (You may have heard of it. Little thing called "Brokeback Mountain.") Which is to say that I never actually saw the film. (Either of them. Get over it.) But the paperback caught my eye at the library the other day while I was looking for another author in the "P"s. (Ellis Peters.) So I grabbed it, despite my usual distaste for Gen Lit. (It tends to be pretentious and depressing, so I tend to be avoidant.)
And I ended up pleasantly surprised. Well, I shouldn't've been surprised, I supposed, given that the author's good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize. But after reacting negatively to a couple of Proulx's grammar quirks, I ended up drawn into the story and going along at a rapid clip. The only bad thing I draw out of the book, in fact, is how quickly the book is wrapped up, turned in the process into something that Hints Very Strongly at magical realism.
Verdict: Recommended.
