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Imperfect Birds
Imperfect Birds
Author: Anne Lamott
Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions.
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ISBN-13: 9780143145363
ISBN-10: 0143145363
Publication Date: 4/6/2010
Pages: 1
Edition: Unabridged
Rating:
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 2
Very depressing book...well written, but not a feelgood at all!
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Helpful Score: 2
I LOVE Lamott's essays/memoirs, which often make me laugh out loud and cry (sometimes simultaneously!) but I tend only to like her novels. Imperfect Birds is well written and important, and although ultimately hopeful, Rosie does an awful lot of drugs putting her mom through an awful lot of pain before there is any resolution. Lamott clearly "gets" the teen scene she is writing about. I care about the characters and had to read to find out what would happen, but the process wasn't always a pleasant one - kind of like life, I guess, which is one of her main points. On page 10 we get to hear her main theme, life is "often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people."
PamelaH avatar reviewed Imperfect Birds on + 90 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book had a slow start and I thought it'd get better so I kept reading. Half-way through the book, I was still having a hard time. I found it boring and drawn out. I tried very hard and almost always push myself to finish a book but couldn't fight my way through this one.
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Helpful Score: 1
I much prefer Lamott's essays and autobiographical books to her fiction. My favorite is still "Operating Instructions," As a parent of a teenager, I just found this book depressing and uncomfortable and very California-y...I did not enjoy it, but to be fair, the writing is good, characters are well-drawn and parts are witty. So you could make the argument that Lamott has been very successful in what she set out to do --
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Rosie Ferguson (Primary Character)
Elizabeth Ferguson (Primary Character)
James Ferguson (Major Character)

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