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Loading... The Worst Thing I've Done: A Novelby Ursula Hegi
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I agree with others that said the book fails because there's too little story and too much "style". It might be very creative and imaginative...but that alone doesn't appeal to me enough to keep me interested. ( )Good story. She used an interesting format for this story so you got the current and past versions of what is happening with occasional parts of a letter. It was good. I liked it a lot. It kept me reading longer than I thought for the type of thing it was. I can't tell you or I will ruin it for you. Categorising books as Feminist or Women’s Literature makes many potential readers shy away, while unarguably sexist and sometimes tedious tales for males are called Classics, and anyone with pretentions to an education is expected to be familiar with them. The Worst Thing I’ve Done is Chick Lit, but exquisitely written, a verbal work of art. The main character Sarah is a collage artist, and that art form is the blueprint for this book as the characters and story slowly emerge, built up and revealed in layer after careful layer, until we see the truth. And the truth comprises tragedy and triumph, and everything in-between. A multi-layered, multi-textured, mixed medium mosaic, created from sherds of love, jealousy, friendship, loss, idealism, despair and hope – in short, every aspect of the human condition. An artistic masterpiece Not recommended for audio book. I would have perhaps enjoyed more if it didn't skip around so much from character to character and drop off abruptly mid conversation. I thought the part of the radio doctors was unnecessary. I don't think this story lent itself to the audio format. The changes of narration both back and forth in time and from person to person was confusing enough, but throw in dialog that just ends ... I also felt that the Aunt and all of the political propaganda surrounding her entry in the story put me off. Another criticism of the narration -- I thought Aunt Stormy was supposed to be German, but the accent sounded more like she was from India! ARGH! Difficult to feel any connection with the characters because audio narration was annoying. A chore to finish. There were interesting components to the story and I would probably have had a better experience reading it myself rather than being read to. 0.047 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
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