The Hundred-Year House, (Paperback)

from kellie.herson

There are so many fun, bizarre moments in this book, and it's beautifully written, but it never came together as a cohesive whole for me. (Also, it teased my desire for a book that inverts and deconstructs the typical Novel About Academia/White Male Professor Considers Infidelity With A Student s...

from Loried

I was pleased to receive an advance copy of The Hundred-Year House. The book was well-written, but the reverse chronology didn't work for me. I would get absorbed in the plot of each time period, and I found it difficult to make the transition to a previous time period. It took me a long time to ...

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THE HUNDRED YEAR HOUSE by Rebecca Makkai I made it through 150 pages before deciding I didn't really care about these people and their foibles and meandering progress through what passed for life. A failed writer, a failed artist, a failed mother, a failed son – who cares. The writing is lovely, ...

from arielfl

The structure of the book is very interesting because the story is told backwards. You start with the current generation in the house and then move backwards in time through the preceding 100 years. As you read, certain things the characters say and do puzzle you until you see how it relates to t...

from muddyboy

I feel a little guilty about rating this book so poorly as I think that some readers will really like it. The novel takes place over 100 hundreds years dealing with people who lived in a large mansion during several different periods. This is generally a mystery in which the people living there i...