Hands down ,the best book I read all year. Really, this book captures what it is to be human, and how it is that we interact with other people. Oh man, so damn good. READ IT!!!

A story of a family in a small college town near Boston, this book has engaging characters and addresses so many themes: love and marriage, infidelity, strong friendships, race, family struggles...all wrapped in the context of a college town where everyone knows everyone else. I thoroughly enjoyed this book--much more than I expected.

Our book club had a lot of fun with this book. So many characters that each have their own direction in life. Zadie Smith is one of my favorite authors.

I read this book for a Eng Lit assignment and from the very start of the book I was like WOW! Not the usual piece of literature I'm used to reading for school. But I have to say even though some parts of the book made me uneasy overall this book was very interesting and informative. What I enjoyed most is how realistic the characters where and the plot itself. Not every piece of fiction needs to be straight-laced and neat & tidily wrapped in a pink box. The intellectual sparing between the characters where quite intriguing.

Zadie Smith lives up to the high standards which she established in her first novel "White Teeth". This is a wonderful novel which takes place in a college town otside of Boston. It delves into issues of class and race with gusto and honesty--and definitely humor. I loved it.

An interesting opportunity to see inside the walls of academia and consider where the multivarious forms of beauty lie.

This is an award-winning book, but I don't know that I got it. :) It is the story of an academic family in New England and how they all handle the tension caused by infidelity. It is interesting, but it did not move me all that much.

Read All Book Reviews of "On Beauty"

This book by author Zadie Smith is listed in "1001 Books to Read Before You Die".

Very well written.

This was a good read, it wasn't something I would traditionally pick out, but I read it for my book club and enjoyed it.

An intense satire of the ivory tower of academia in a politically correct time. Very well written and incomfortable story of families and one's place within them.

The author's hommage to EM Forster, this is an absorbing work of fiction that confronts issues of race, class and privilege with humor and satire.

Very good!

Read All Book Reviews of "On Beauty"