Nora also nurses some pretty harsh, antagonistic attitude towards her very competent mentor, who seems to have it all together. To his other girlfriend, who is more interesting and more intelligent (and to be honest, I completely sympathized with the boyfriend). Her brilliant, charismatic, distant (and long-distance) boyfriend also chooses this particular time to announce that he's getting married.but not to her. She knowingly chose a topic that's been plowed over and over and over by thousands of other candidates, and is now shocked, utterly SHOCKED, I tell you, that she's stuck without a viable idea on which to write. She's an English Ph.D candidate whose dissertation is coming undone, or rather.un-Donne. When we meet her, Nora is a woman with #firstworldproblems up the yin yang. For one thing, we're led to believe that our heroine is a thinking woman. My anger-fueled metaphor would involve something to the likes of a putrefying corpse, a regurgitated meal, and a honey badger. Sure, they're both parts of the same animal's internal organs, but in one situation you're eating lovely, unctuous, rich goodness, and in the other you're just eating mostly digested crap.Ĭonsidering I really liked The Magicians, and that I absolutely loved Pride & Prejudice, you don't even want to hear me make a metaphor on this book's supposed similarity to the aforementioned book. To say this book is like Lev Grossman's The Magicians is like saying eating foie gras is like eating a rectum.
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