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TITLE: White Oleander
AUTHOR: Janet Fitch
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_allshallfade. I know this was also turned into a movie; has anyone seen it? What did you think of it?
01. Fitch certainly did a good job of portraying Ingrid as off her rocker. Even before she started stalking her ex-boyfriend, I always thought it was odd how poetic she spoke. At first I attributed it to Fitch trying to sound artsy and clever with her words, but then I realized that it was a warning sign about how insane the mother was.
02. There were a ton of characters in this book! I know that obviously had to happen, because of Astrid being shunted around to a ton of different foster homes, but I couldn't keep track of all of them and whenever Fitch mentioned people from a couple homes back, I had no idea what she was talking about.
03. =( I felt so bad for Claire. I kept picturing her as Claire from LOST, so seeing all of this shit happening to her was even harder than it probably would have been otherwise. I totally called her killing herself when she locked herself in her room, although I forgot about it when she let Astrid come in and was thus stupidly surprised when she didn't wake up the next morning.
04. The ending was kind of random. She met Paul once, thought about him for a few pages, and then completely ignored him for the rest of the book until the epilogue, where it turned out that she started living with him. Where the hell did that come from? She never mentioned anything about meeting him--it was just like, "Oh, well, we've been living in Berlin for a year now, it's pretty cool." It felt as if the ending was hastily slapped together after the rest of the story had been moving sluggishly.
05. One overall comment--Fitch's style doesn't really appeal to me in terms of reading (there's only so much I can handle of extended metaphors and heavy-duty imagery), though overall it was amazing for a debut. I haven't looked at her second book yet, but if the writing's a tenth as good as her first then it probably got excellent reviews.
TITLE: White Oleander
AUTHOR: Janet Fitch
Note: This was a book recommendation from
_allshallfade. I know this was also turned into a movie; has anyone seen it? What did you think of it?01. Fitch certainly did a good job of portraying Ingrid as off her rocker. Even before she started stalking her ex-boyfriend, I always thought it was odd how poetic she spoke. At first I attributed it to Fitch trying to sound artsy and clever with her words, but then I realized that it was a warning sign about how insane the mother was.
02. There were a ton of characters in this book! I know that obviously had to happen, because of Astrid being shunted around to a ton of different foster homes, but I couldn't keep track of all of them and whenever Fitch mentioned people from a couple homes back, I had no idea what she was talking about.
03. =( I felt so bad for Claire. I kept picturing her as Claire from LOST, so seeing all of this shit happening to her was even harder than it probably would have been otherwise. I totally called her killing herself when she locked herself in her room, although I forgot about it when she let Astrid come in and was thus stupidly surprised when she didn't wake up the next morning.
04. The ending was kind of random. She met Paul once, thought about him for a few pages, and then completely ignored him for the rest of the book until the epilogue, where it turned out that she started living with him. Where the hell did that come from? She never mentioned anything about meeting him--it was just like, "Oh, well, we've been living in Berlin for a year now, it's pretty cool." It felt as if the ending was hastily slapped together after the rest of the story had been moving sluggishly.
05. One overall comment--Fitch's style doesn't really appeal to me in terms of reading (there's only so much I can handle of extended metaphors and heavy-duty imagery), though overall it was amazing for a debut. I haven't looked at her second book yet, but if the writing's a tenth as good as her first then it probably got excellent reviews.
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