About book Erinnerungen An Eine Ehe: Roman (German Edition) (2013)
I like the title "Memories of a Marriage," I like how succinct and direct it is. But this book was anything but that. I found this self-satisfied narrator to be odiously petty, judgmental and scheming; and I pretty much felt sorry for the slandered victim whose faulty marriage he investigates. Maybe if this story took place within Michigan's Tri-County area, I might have found these coincidental sightings and run-ins more believable, but to have them occurring all over Paris, London and New York City was just ridiculous. Mostly the narrator's ickiness ruined this book for me. Well, I didn't finish this one. It seems to be well-written. But I just couldn't sympathize much with the characters, who are old-money rich. From the get-go, that's a disadvantage with me, because I don't feel much kinship with or liking of the super rich. So after about 50 pages, I decided to abandon it. If you're not as prejudiced as I am about rich folks, you could very well like this novel.
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Beautifully written. I took me quite a few pages to get into the characters but then I was hooked.
—John
Quick and breezy. Old money, great narrator, and lots of WASP shenanigans.
—shebbs
Interesting, but not as compelling as others by this author.
—Komoriutu
