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A review by sloatsj
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
2.0
Not bad, but not great either. One of those books that -when you're reading it- you think "actually I could be reading Dostoevsky, or William Faulkner, or George Eliot," or, in my case, that Saul Bellow book I bought a year ago, never having read Bellow, but having read, now, Jayne Anne Phillips.
The story is okay; the writing is good, though I must admit the "poetry" of it bored me, as did the tunnel scenes in Korea. I had trouble connecting with the characters. The storm was anticlimactic. The immutable goodness of Lark could have come right out of Dickens. Could she do wrong? Nope, she was born to do good, by Termite! Whatever. Just not my thing, I guess. Great cover, though.
The story is okay; the writing is good, though I must admit the "poetry" of it bored me, as did the tunnel scenes in Korea. I had trouble connecting with the characters. The storm was anticlimactic. The immutable goodness of Lark could have come right out of Dickens. Could she do wrong? Nope, she was born to do good, by Termite! Whatever. Just not my thing, I guess. Great cover, though.