About book Important Things That Don't Matter: A Novel (2004)
This is totally poignant. It's hard to tell how I felt exactly. I had no idea how father and son talked in America. But those conversations just make me moved uncomfortable in my chair. You never know how did children view their childhood. This book is called important things that doesn't matter, I guess it means those details just doesn't matter to those careless people, like his alcoholic father, his unrealised friends and his girls. The boy never said he hate anyone, but the motionless expression feels more hurt. Those chapters feel like pieces of gossip and part of drink talk. The thoughts people won't tell you when they are sober. But once they are drunk or too sleepy, you could know a bit from their whisper. It's dark and uncanny. Everyone had an ocean of secret and darkness. They just don't say.I never know the protagonist's name. I guess if I asked him myself, he would say" call me feller if you like. My name? Oh, although you thought its important, really, it doesn't matter. " Somehow it reminds me of Julian Barnes and his < The sense of an ending>. He is another expert to decorate little psychology phrases in daily describing. But they are in different ways. Julian make the combination smooth and you are eager to tell your own thoughts, but David left silence and bitterness in your mouth. You could only sigh and buried shocks in your heart.
This one was okay. It took me a couple of chapters to realize that it's not written like your typical novel. Each "chapter" is more like a memory he's writing about, in no particular order, and he can sometimes go off into these tangents that seem to last forever. However, I do think the author did a good job in capturing the "voice" of his character at different ages. I thought it was kind of weird that by the end of the novel, the boy was dating women his dad's age, and his dad was dating women his son's age. We never did learn the boy's name, did we?
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