So Much for That

from deargreenplace

Wow. This is a hard book to read, and all the more so because many of the characters are equally hard to find empathy for. We follow the lives of two married couples, Shepherd and Glynis, and Carol and Jackson. All are close friends, with Shep and Jackson working together. Originally, Shep was th...

from Tytania

This is my third Lionel Shriver, and I didn't love it as much as the first two, because the secondary plot was a bit annoying and tiresome. Without it, the book may have garnered five stars and been a more satisfactory length as well. Our hero has a dream, and has had it since he was 15: to work ...

from jovilla

Shep Knacker is a handyman in New York City with a dream of moving to a tropical island and giving up all the cares of the big city life. To this end he has been scrimping and saving all his life, keeping his money in an investment account, waiting for the day when he could go, with or without hi...

from phebj

This was a tough book to read because of the subject matter--serious illness and the frustrations of dealing with the US health care industry--and that also makes it a difficult book to evaluate. I went from liking it to disliking it and finally to being totally engrossed in it. The main characte...

from kishields

Probably too depressing for many, but I found this book so absorbing that I couldn't put it down. A clever plot that works out a bit too neatly, but has many believable twists and turns. Of course, if you buy the political point of view about the fallacies of our health care and economic systems,...