Sandi M. reviewed on 5/28/2016 + 14 more book reviews

Have you ever gone to a movie that was bad from the start, but you stayed until the end due to the cost of the movie or the hope that the movie would get better? This book is like that movie, at least for me. I felt like I was trying to "get through it" due to picking it for my Reading Challenge: a book translated from another language. In spite of the title, I found very little real love in the book and very little to love about it! The protagonist ---(SPOILER ALERT!)---has sex for years with a minor child he was supposed to be protecting, he leaves a painted message on a married lover's abdomen that causes her murder by her husband, he moves from one loveless affair to another with only narcissistic involvement, and he pathetically whines and pines away for an unrequited love for about 50 years. I can't believe this book was: (a) written by a Pulitzer Prize winner, and (b) chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Total waste of my time. (less) [edit]

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