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Fiction

bif

(25,815 posts) Sat Sep 26, 2020, 09:06 AM Sep 2020

Read half of "The Shipping News." Gave up. [View all]

Am I the only one who wasn't wild about it? Not sure why it got all the awards it did. It seemed like a Garrison Keilor "Lake Wobegone" series of stories and I didn't really care about any of the characters. Am I missing something?

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Read half of "The Shipping News." Gave up. [View all] bif Sep 2020 OP

i liked the movie...the book reviews said you will hate all the characters at first... samnsara Sep 2020 #1

I hear ya. I usually give a book 50 pages bif Sep 2020 #2

me too. I used to feel guilty about bailing out of well reviewed books... now... "life is short" Demovictory9 Dec 2020 #12

I endorse your view. no_hypocrisy Sep 2020 #3

I liked murielm99 Sep 2020 #4

Shipping (yawn) news... Claire Oh Nette Sep 2020 #5

One of my all-time favorite books. The writing is beautiful and the characters are original and Nitram Sep 2020 #6

Agreed. Oldem Dec 2020 #8

Apparently some readers are wedded to the idea of cliched ordinary people and can't see the humor, Nitram Dec 2020 #9

Resonate is a good word. Oldem Dec 2020 #10

Ditto every word LearnedHand Dec 2020 #11

I'm with you on this birdographer Dec 2020 #7