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A review by kipahni
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell
3.0
Well this was a kind of all over type of book- unlike any other book I have read. You can usually figure out a book half-way through or even just from the cover but this book was all over the place.
Will I ever read it again, no. Do I want to own it, no. Did I enjoy every minute of listening to it, YES!
The other thing I found interesting about this book was that the main character was a lot more passive- I mean he really was more like a secondary or peripheral character and everything else was kind of just occuring around him (as opposed to taking an active part in his life)
The ending was kind of anticlimatic but really where can the author go when he has already gone to heaven, holocaust, spirit possesion, esperanto and psychoanalysis- everything is pale in comparison to that.
While I think the theme of the book is myth vs reality
my husband thinks the book is about "The jewish people just wanting to have a home, peace, and a belief"
not sure where he got that from in the book.... but to be fair he just listened to the very first part and the very last part.
Will I ever read it again, no. Do I want to own it, no. Did I enjoy every minute of listening to it, YES!
The other thing I found interesting about this book was that the main character was a lot more passive- I mean he really was more like a secondary or peripheral character and everything else was kind of just occuring around him (as opposed to taking an active part in his life)
The ending was kind of anticlimatic but really where can the author go when he has already gone to heaven, holocaust, spirit possesion, esperanto and psychoanalysis- everything is pale in comparison to that.
While I think the theme of the book is myth vs reality
my husband thinks the book is about "The jewish people just wanting to have a home, peace, and a belief"
not sure where he got that from in the book.... but to be fair he just listened to the very first part and the very last part.