Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
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Looking for a book that actually tells a meaningful story, or has a plot or even makes any sense? This is not it!
This book really could have been so much better..if it had even a small amount of purpose. Oh and take out all the mundane, unnecessary fodder, that would be great.
The author thinks it is important to add the fact that someone is driving and puts their blinker on to make a turn, but then decides not to and turns the blinker off - WHY, why, why do we need to know this??? The reader could care less, unless it actually has some purpose...WHICH IT DOES NOT. Just say he drove to her house. There, done.
A pregnancy is discussed and the reader does not need to know that she peed on a stick from a package from the drugstore in order to figure out she was pregnant. :/
We live in the 21st century, we know how people find out they are pregnant!
This book would probably be less than 200 pages if all the useless and redundant words/phrase/ideas were removed.
Thank goodness it is off my TBR and I never have to look at it again.
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