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Sto caricando le informazioni... Joe College (2000)di Tom Perrotta
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Light read, fairly well written. ( ) I love Little Children and Abstinence Teacher but I am afraid this is not a great book. I found it difficult suspend disbelief and ultimately I didnt like the main character. The other characters are not drawn out enough to make them clear and relatable and I kept getting confused about who was who. Like other people have said I loved it at the start but it went down hill. Shame, but I still like his other books. I had a mixed experience reading Joe College. At first I tore into it - I loved it - I felt like the pages were just flying - but then all of a sudden it slowed. I found myself choosing to do other things rather than reading more. I did finally push through and I liked it just fine. I am a fan of Tom Perrotta's. This is the 3rd book of his that I have read in about a year. I love his casual smart style. I think his characters are really well formed. The people and conversations smack with realism. I think I finally did put my finger on what slowed this down for me. It was the whole father/lunchtruck/mafia subplot. I found it depressing, cringeworthy and distracting from the other plot lines I was really enjoying. Anyway - I still liked this book overall - I would recommend it to someone who already likes Perrotta - but I dont think it's the best one of his to start with if you haven't read him before. I loved the films Election and Little Children, which were made by different people but both adaptations of books by Tom Perrotta. I figured if both movies turned out that well, the source material must be really good. So I read his book The Abstinence Teacher and loved that too. As a result I went into Joe College with high expectations, and I ended up a bit disappointed. Danny. He's a student at Yale. His parents are hard-working, but with minimal means. He has girlfriend troubles. Its New Jersey, 1982. So, we've got coming of age issues, class issues, the classic struggle to fit in. I was not sure that this would be the right backdrop for good comedy. Early on there was an essay on highlighters that had me practically crying I was laughing so hard. Perrotta's choice of language was priceless and superb. But that was the last time I laughed. I think the characters - Danny, his college friends, his parents, the NJ crowd - were all grounded solidly in the times. They were a little bit of cariacatures, but not over the top. So, maybe that explains why I didn't think they were funny. Even the Lunch Monsters - the competing lunch trucks run by the mob - were not funny. How Danny hapelessly runs amok of them. Not realistic and not funny. The things that seemed the most real, were a little bit sad. If I hadn't been feeling a bit nostalgic, I would not have continued. I still gave it 3 stars. It was easy to read, mildly interesting, and a reasonable representation of the time and place. It was not compelling or funny. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
For many college students, spring break means fun and sun in Florida. For Danny, a Yale junior, it means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his father's lunch truck, which plies the parking lots of office parks in central New Jersey. But Danny can use the time behind the coffee urn to try and make sense of a love life that's gotten a little complicated. There's loyal and patient hometown honey Cindy and her recently dropped bombshell to contend with. And there's also lissome Polly back in New Haven-with her shifting moods, perfect thrift store dresses, and inconvenient liaison with a dashing professor. If girl problems aren't enough, there's the constant menace of the Lunch Monsters, a group of thungs who think Danny has planted the Roach Coach in their territory. "Joe College "is Tom Perrotta's warmest and funniest fiction yet, a comic journey into the dark side of love, higher education, and food service. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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