book report: her fearful symmetry

to say the least, this book is ABSOLUTLY TERRIBLE... and it's disgusting that niffenegger was given a $5million advance to write it. i am throughly disappointed, as The Time Travelers Wife is one of my very favorites.

where do I even begin with this one? the characters? flat... dull... nothing to really make them stand out from one another. even the voices of the american characters are wrttien with british spelling and slang. and- there were WAT to many of them... that niffenegger dwells on... that really have NOTHING to contribute to the "story"- if you can even find the actual story amonst all the dribble. had i turned something like this into any of my writing professors, i'm fairly certain i would have been reemed out and sent back to the drawing board.

i should have just put this one down halfway through and let it go, but i was so sure that it would be worth it in the end. i remember it taking me awhile to "get into" Time Travelers Wife, and i just assumed it would be the same deal with Symmentry. nope. it's not. this books is DULL DULL DULL- DULL AND POINTLESS AND WEIRD AND SCATTERED from start to finish. shall i continue?

what i find to be most disappointing, is that the book had serious potential. the characters could have been great, the story was incredibly unique and COULD HAVE BEEN fascinating... but, i got the sense that niffenegger wasn't even trying. it was as if she'd gotten her money, carlessly and thoughtlessly puked out a few hundred pages, and was done.

to spare you all from a completely angsty rant- i will leave at the fact that this book is so hurried and terrible and "unfinished" that i am nothing short of EMBARESSED for both the writer AND the publisher, for allowing this monstorsity to hit the shelves and tricking readers into thinking they're about to get into something great.

don't bother. seriusly.