::sneaks onto computer:: Help- We Need to Talk About Kevin (NS)

myJunegirls

Hi!  I haven't been around in FOREVER.  I can't have fun anymore while at work and I never go online while at home.

So....

Anyone read We Need To Talk About Kevin?

I am 100 pages in..... and cripes is this boring! I was so looking forward to reading this.

What I want to know is- is the whole book written with the mom writing letters to the husband?  Or do we get actual story/ dialog via flashbacks, etc?  I'll keep trudging along if the style will change soon.

But man- the mom is killing me!

thanks!

j*&p*

I can't speak to this book, but I read Post-Birthday World by the same author and it was dead boring too. 

dutchgirl76

I had a really hard time getting through the first 100 - 150 pages of this book. I'm glad I stuck with it, and I can't tell you exactly the perspective the whole way through because I worry it could spoil, but yes you'll pretty much just hear from the mom. I didn't like the movie as much, I found it was really slow and you had to have read the book to understand the plot.

With that said, I think the mom's a bit pretentious, yes she worked hard to have such a good career, but honestly if that book was 50 pages shorter, removing her praise for herself I wouldn't have been that upset. In the end I'm not sure her travels in India or wherever really helped the plot.

kelliebeans

dutchgirl76 said:

With that said, I think the mom's a bit pretentious, yes she worked hard to have such a good career, but honestly if that book was 50 pages shorter, removing her praise for herself I wouldn't have been that upset. In the end I'm not sure her travels in India or wherever really helped the plot.

I agree with this.  This part kind of dragged but I think it does get better and more interesting.  I find myself going back and thinking about certain aspects of this book a lot.  Come back and discuss if/when you finish!

RiverPlate

This was a NBC book of the month, maybe 2 years ago?  Man.  I got maybe 100 pages in and quit.  I just couldn't.  I've read other books with the same subject matter, so it wasn't that, I just couldn't with the writing style.  One of my few DNFs.

dutchgirl76

RiverPlate said:

This was a NBC book of the month, maybe 2 years ago?  Man.  I got maybe 100 pages in and quit.  I just couldn't.  I've read other books with the same subject matter, so it wasn't that, I just couldn't with the writing style.  One of my few DNFs.

Yes! I've read books about school shootings too, that's what drew me into this book. I have to say it's disappointing going in thinking it's more about Kevin than it is.

pinkybooklover09

I really tried with this one. It was so effing boring that I quit 100 pages in. Life is too short for boring books.