2009

Nearly finished this one. It is a great portrait of a group of friends who are making it or not making it in New York. I am enjoying Messud's style of writing and the descriptions of each character and their thoughts is very captivating. It is not an action story as it does move slowly. Definitely worth the effort though. ( )

Story of lives of young people in NYC, twist at the end with 9/11 ( )

This was one of those books that just couldn't hold my interest. I simply don't enjoy the style of writing and the plot was, to me, uninteresting. ( )

que perdida de tiempo. tenia ganas de una novela con muchos personajes donde la trama fuera mas importante que estos experimentos estilisticos o grandes enunciados. me interesaba tambien algo en manhattan y los circulosos intelectualosos/ adinerados. al fin y al cabo la trama es flojona. peor, no hay razon para tener simpatia por estos personajes. de hecho al final son bastante repugnantes. no me parece que la autora tiene mucha distancia de este mundo para ver lo ridiculos que son sus personajes. ( )