The Greenest Island
Today I'm linking upwards alongside Jessica for What We're Reading Wednesday. I've had quite a lot of duds inwards the mass region lately, mainly because our local library doesn't receive got a huge choice together with I become inwards blind, randomly grabbing things that await interesting. Like this book, for example. I couldn't create create the starting fourth dimension few chapters earlier I skipped to the end, where all of my worst suspicions were confirmed. So what am I saying? The plot was both repulsive (to me) together with at the same fourth dimension predictable. I should receive got known from the title. However, Laura has given me hope, together with I innovation to asking to a greater extent than or less of the books she recommends.
Anyway, I don't receive got much fourth dimension to pound out a postal service today, together with then I had improve larn to the point. Last nighttime I read Paul Theroux's The Greenest Island inwards the bathtub. It's that quick. It's the flush of a really immature duet that steals away to Puerto Rico to enshroud an unplanned pregnancy. The plot plays out over the course of report of a suffocatingly hot summertime inwards the early on 1960's.
It was my starting fourth dimension contact alongside Theroux's writing, together with I liked his style. It was clear, together with he only articulates thoughts that I receive got flora my ain heed dancing around. For example, at 1 indicate the immature protagonist is forced to pose aside his dream to write together with receive got a project at a local hotel. Theroux writes,
Anyway, I don't receive got much fourth dimension to pound out a postal service today, together with then I had improve larn to the point. Last nighttime I read Paul Theroux's The Greenest Island inwards the bathtub. It's that quick. It's the flush of a really immature duet that steals away to Puerto Rico to enshroud an unplanned pregnancy. The plot plays out over the course of report of a suffocatingly hot summertime inwards the early on 1960's.
It was my starting fourth dimension contact alongside Theroux's writing, together with I liked his style. It was clear, together with he only articulates thoughts that I receive got flora my ain heed dancing around. For example, at 1 indicate the immature protagonist is forced to pose aside his dream to write together with receive got a project at a local hotel. Theroux writes,
The coin was plenty to alive on, non plenty to costless him. So the salary trapped him to a greater extent than completely than the fright of poverty had. The project became central, the solely of import thing; and his ambitions became local: to receive got a publico rather than a bus, to swallow inwards a practiced eating theater rather than La Gloria, to drinkable rum instead of beer (my emphasis).I larn the feeling that Theroux was writing from a house of experience - a quick await at his bio reveals that he had a nestling which he gave upwards for adoption when he was inwards college. But how many of us receive got likewise experienced this reality? The friction betwixt dreams together with needs, fright together with security, comfort together with freedom. So what's the solution? Theroux doesn't actually larn in that location inwards this brusque story, together with I don't intend it's an slowly one. Maybe the almost of import affair is to live on reminded that the friction exists.
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