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The Long Accomplishment
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rvresi01
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“Thank you to Rick Moody, NetGalley, and Henry Holt & Company for providing an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Although not uninteresting material, this was difficult to get through due to the author's writing style. I am not a fan of overly idealistic soliloquys, nor of extremely long run-on sentences filled with seemingly unrelated phrases.
From the subtitle [A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony], as well as the book blurb, I was expecting this to be an account of how the author learned from mistakes in his first marriage in order to make his second a success, despite overwhelming odds. I didn't pick up this theme in the novel. Moody does chronologically detail the hardships he and Laurel experienced, but did little to link it to any kind of overarching message or tone.
Nearly half the book passes before we get any sense of who Laurel is. It is difficult to be invested in the outcome of the titular marriage when we don't have any commitment to one of the parties.”
Alissy_McCracken
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Heather Bartlett
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“I had a lot of hope this book was gonna get to me and while it was tough to read it was not at all due to the topic. The way the author wrote it was like he drug on about the small details and then the huge things where I wanted to feel every emotion. Well just flew by but that’s a man for ya I guess. I do say I know this wasn’t easy to write about I’m sure!”
Bella
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“This book took me forever to pick up, and now I know why. I didn't enjoy it the least bit. I just felt like he was making excuses throughout the book. Run on sentences. It seems he didn't learn much about his previous marriage
Reading the blurb I thought the book would be about someone who went through serious issues in their marriage and recreated themselves and started off fresh with intentions of not screwing up again. But, it just seemed he wanted to just impress his second wife with what he wrote. Overall wasn't impressed with the writing or the book overall. Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillian for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.”
Misty Prochaska
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About Rick Moody
is the author of the award-winning memoir
and of the novels
,
,
,
,
, and
, as well as three collections of short fiction, including
. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and of an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, as awarded by the French Republic. His work has been anthologized in
,
, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He writes regularly about music at the Rumpus. He teaches at Brown University and lives with his family in Cranston, Rhode Island.
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