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5 Responses to “On Beauty”

1. A. Swan Says:
   
   January 3rd, 2010 at 8:24 pm
   

   I did recieve this book. I did not order this book. If I did order this book it is because I clicked on the incorrect box. I have not read the book. I will keep it, however. It is just too much hasstle to return the book to you.
   Arnetta Swan
   Rating: 1 / 5

   
   
   
   
2. Kyle C. Foley Says:
   
   January 3rd, 2010 at 9:26 pm
   

   in a plot that explicity engems howard’s end twists of the river and flow of the ice-berg, on beauty by zadie smith explores the 21st century’s malaises, spiritual diseases and our heart-ectomies: the emotional tsunami of adultery, the sulfuric bleakness of identity crisis, clowns laughing in our sleep, hyenas exposing themselves in force, interracial conflictica, torrid religious fanatacism, its foam in the mind, its cancer in the spirit. there is the belsey family, its father is an englishman teaching art history at a university, elaborating on remebrandt’s oiling dim and his [rembrandt's] retreat into shadow. then there is his wife, kiki, pragmatic, ignoring intellectum’s zinc and silver, their two children, one, jerome, devout, praying, the altar an immaculate block of ivory, the prayer book his jewel and ruby, two, zora, a compassionate advocate for social justice, combatting bloated greed and gorillan injustice, lastly there is levi, fully in the grip of the lure of the fantasy image of a black gangster, rap music hearing, gold chains wearing, slang employing in quantity. jerome the christian yields fully to the tsunami of venus’ dream as he pursues the daughter of howard’s blade-enemy: monty kipps. thus begins an interfamilial descent into the cauldron, blasting in chlorox, preponderant in methane. howard’s wife then attaches herself to mrs kipps thus adding kerosene to the embers, the families more enmeshed, more enspiraled, debates having, affrimative action’s elephants trampling, the gash, the foam and the scimitar. ultimately it is a successful book, well-written, absent of a naive descent into cliche, also funny, wild and ramping.

   author of Lorelei Pursued and Wrestles with God
   Rating: 3 / 5

   
   
   
   
3. lisa terwilliger Says:
   
   January 3rd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
   

   so very excellent! a really wonderful book, especially for fans of “White Teeth”. Go Zadie!
   Rating: 5 / 5

   
   
   
   
4. T. Spencer Says:
   
   January 4th, 2010 at 12:50 am
   

   This book was selected for my book club group. We gave it a grade overall of D. Ms Smith is overrated. I do not understand why critics are raving about her. Her writing was confusing. She does not fully develop her characters or explain the story. The character Jerome was in love with Victoria but were never explained how this came about and why it fell apart. Her use of English (American) language was crazy. She should have written about her home instead of a place she apparently does not understand or know how to write about. She never fully explains the feud of two main characters, Howard and Kipps. People who were minor characters became major players with no real purpose to the story. It was onfusing, overdone and not that great.
   Rating: 2 / 5

   
   
   
   
5. Ellen Rutherford Says:
   
   January 4th, 2010 at 3:26 am
   

   First, this book is self indulgently long – her editor must have been afraid to ask her to cut some of the more boing bits. Second, the proofreader must have fallen asleep from the dullness – here are two examples of silly errors that should have been caught before going to press:
   p. 266 “specialist boutique that might have the cane with the carved handle which that Carlene had in mind. ” – obviously, ms smith didn’t know whether to use “which” or “that” so put both in!
   p. 287 “to laugh at the expensive pretension of bussing down Kingsmen” – look it up, please, “bussing” means “kissing
   Rating: 2 / 5

   
   
   
   

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