zambra, “okumamak”ta a.m.homes’dan çok bahsediyor. bu kitap benim okumamak sonrası alışveriş listemdendi. ama yanlış kitapla mı başladım bilmiyorum. zaten irem (merixien) de yazmıştı yorumunda. beni de sarmadı. This book left me cold. Not indifferent-this-is-failing-to-evoke-a-reaction cold. The good kind of cold. The this-feels-eerily-close-to-reality cold.

There is a horse in the center of the hole, eating grass. Again, he thinks of the signs on the telephone poles at the bottom of the hill. "UFO? You Are Not Alone." Home to Hollywood and Disneyland, Los Angeles may just be the American epitome of the controlled environment: man-made, manicured, synthetic. If the Great American Novel tends to tell of the outsider looking for and grasping at the American Dream, A.M. Homes’s This Book Will Save Your Life inverts such tales in a droll, satirical adventure of personal redemption that turns on the absurd.bundan sonra anca filmlerde olabilecek saçmalıklar silsilesi devam ediyor. richard panik atak geçiriyor, yarık büyüyor, içine at düşüyor, hollywood yıldızı komşu helikopterle kurtarıyor, manavda ağlayan bir kadınla kanka oluyor, kadının kocasıyla yumruklaşıyor, kaçırılan bir kızı kurtarıyor, evden taşınması gerekiyor, arabasını donut’çuya ödünç veriyor, yeni taşındığı evde meğer abd’nin en ünlü senaristiyle komşu oluyor vs. yani ben amerikan edebiyatını çok severim, özellikle öyküleri. ama para içinde yüzen pembe götlü amerikalıların bu bomboş dertleri ve aile sorunlarıyla yüzleşmeleri beni artık etkilemiyor. sorry. For what seemed like a light-hearted romp, turned out to be a forensic examination and rumination of this reader’s own life. You know, Richard’s experiences in this story, would touch on so many people. I would be surprised if any one reader couldn’t find something to draw on here. Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life. So why are we here? Why are we afraid of suffering? Why do we try and avoid suffering? We do we think it is wrong to suffer? We medicate, we medicate we are desperate not to suffer” If all this brilliance sounds exhausting, don't be put off. The book is a gentle, entertaining antidote to the over-achievements of much of modern life. Set in Los Angeles, it is a peculiarly appealing story of Richard, an initially unlikable middle-aged man, wealthy, independent, divorced, estranged from his only son.

In April of 2007 Viking published her long awaited memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, the story of the author being "found" by her biological family, and a literary exploration and investigation of identity, adoption and genealogical ties that bind.Wow. Wow. wow. This book sneaks up on you - it starts out really strong, and then only gets better. What if whoever wrote the story of Job had a sense of humor? Nixon is pondered. One character donates her organs. Another tries to grow a heart. A seductive minefield of a novel from A.M. Homes.”—John Sayles, author of A Moment in the Sun