Conversations with Friends

I have half the book to go. I've read three other things whilst trying to slog through this one. I'm not encouraged by the reviews. Like, so far, um...these characters aren't Millennials. Unless this is a period piece, and I just missed that somehow, these people are too young to be Millennial. So...uh, critics, she's not the voice of a generation. I don't know the background of author or novel at this point, and I'm not finished. So we'll see.

I confess, I would have put this book off indefinitely, but Thomas MacGregor was reading it onset, so I HAD to read it then.

So. Finally finished it.

No.

I was toying with reading her next book, but I think I'd be too annoyed. Bobbi, Melissa, and Nick weren't very engaging, and Frances was awful. They could all be awful. But I cannot deal with them being boring, which Frances especially was. This book name-drops academic things to seem scholarly. We're told Frances is a Communist, but she really seems aimless and pretentious. And the whole thing was rather shallow. It kept telling me rather than showing me. Too much passive description is boring.

I will say kudos on non-traditional relationships, but everyone was a dolt. And Nick had no business have an affair with a 21-year old. I will also say kudos for dealing with endometriosis, although Frances' case was handled rather anticlimactically, as were her self-image issues and her cutting.

Frances says she has no personality. She didn't; nor does this book.