I really need to stop reading books about men having existential mid-life crises because I just cannot sympathize. I truly cannot, especially when a sudden shift in personality results in harming (physically or emotionally) their family. Which is why I found this book difficult to swallow. The protagonist is an up and coming professor whose slide into chaos begins when his wife announces that she's pregnant. From there, various professional events take him back and forth from the US to Europe where he just makes poor decision after poor decision. And his reasoning is awful too- for someone so smart, he explains away thoroughly bone-headed choices with pitifully weak reason. At times, I was convinced he wasn't thinking at all (which makes him the same as the protagonist from Bergdorf Blondes). The book is actually fantastically written, with great descriptions of everything from scenery to the protagonist's emotional collapse.
2 bookworms- This review sounds like I hated the book and I did labor through it, but the writing was amazing enough that I think you should check out this book if you don't mind the topic.
Friday, March 12, 2010
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