Just been struggling through 'Point of rescue'.
On the cover it says it was made into a TV show. It also says she has won loads of prizes for her work.
From my personal point of view its full of empty stereotyped characters all self obsessed/absorbed beyond describing. Poor people communicate only by shouting and are portrayed as dim by default of being poor. All 'middle class' very well off mothers have harrowing lives regardless of doing amazing jobs (top end banking, saving Venice lagoon) or staying at home. Most men lack all interest in their wife or children. Areas of the actual plot are beyond improbable.
So is this a 'style' confined to this book or are all her books so badly characterised and plotted? I cant really see why she is getting awards if all are as bad as this one. Anyone else got a view?
sounds great. 😐
are you one of these people that has to finish a book once you've started?
cosmo approved chick lit?
All poor people are thick and lazy.
All working mothers are much more worthy than the rest of us just because they are working mothers.
All men are overbearing ignorant missing links from the stone age.
These are irrefutable facts of life according to most of the nedia, sounds like she has just fallen inline with the message.
Jam - yes, do tend to finish books on the whole. I think its the sense of disbelief driving me to finish this one - as in 'can it really be this bad/how much worse can it get?' That an amazement at what some people manage to earn money for. I am not usually a fussy reader, its just this book seems SO bad... Still, its the last of hers I will ever read so at least an end is in sight 🙂
MSP - perhaps rather sadly, you have accurately summed up the view of her publisher or their view of book readers anyway 🙁
Must have been fun for the script writer to get a half decent show from this material, poor person.
get on amazon and give her a pounding
Kimbers - 😯
are you one of these people that has to finish a book once you've started?
It's a real cross to bear. I was given Blood's a Rover (James Ellroy) by a family member who'd bought it by mistake. After 30 pages I was fairly convinced I didn't want to read it; I struggled through for another 2 months and 500 or so pages before, finally, giving in and binning it. Awful, but I couldn't give up!
Nicko, yes its not always helpful, but just occasionally you get a surprise and find it was worth getting to the end, rare but does happen. Like winning the lottery 🙂
One book I struggled with I threw straight in the bin rather than charity shop it or pass it to a friend. I did not want people reading it - not badly written but a deeply nasty fiction book. Sometimes the cover adverts show very little resemblance to what you end up with. That was one of the few I never got to the end of.
I read cereal packets too, menus when I dont want food etc. Often its a need for something to do as I am not entertained at that moment or to escape from some bit of reality I need a break from.
Another one that has to read the whole book here, too. Only ever defeated by some crappy airport novel about a battle between different nation's special forces duking it out on an ice station, and anything by Martina Cole.
MARTINA COLE! How is that woman actually published??!?!? a more annoying, frustrating style of dialogue I have yet to ever come across, coupled with unimaginative, stereotyped one dimensional characterisation. Not often that I would happily burn a book, but GRRRRR!