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Also I was kind of confused as to when it was set – feels more like the early 80s than the late 90s/early 00s – would a teenager in the later period really be listening to the Buzzcocks? The plot was all sorts of too slow for the first 200-odd pages, and then the end bit, where her mother gets hospitalized, was really rushed.

The problem being—while they’re all quite interesting and strange in their own right (with some emphasis on strange)—none of these things that I figured out added up to a complete and coherent story. Carmen has grown up with a deeply ingrained love/hate relationship with food, as her mother has begged her to keep food diaries, participate in her diets with her, and avoid the food that her step-father, Brian, would cook for her to keep her eating.Niveau intrigue, XXL est un joli roman sur l'impact que peut avoir les autres, et surtout la maman, sur une jeune ado, même quand on semble prendre la direction opposée.

It started off a little too out there for me to really understand what was happening, but I gave it some time, because obviously you can't judge a book by a few pages.It was “gritty” in the grand tradition of unsentimental books about British teenagers having a bad time. A single chapter may take a piece written by Bach, analyze it, use that analysis to make a point about systems theory which then results in a paradox which is then made fun of with a fictional dialogue between Achilles and a turtle.

We lose a bunch of characters pretty ignominiously (which is fine), abandon a few others, and it's like the protagonist shifts in the final 30 pages completely, and we realize that we've actually just been watching the closing act of someone else's story this entire time. According to history, Fukuyama says, size of government doesn’t matter nearly as much as the quality of government.Welcome to the Building, so named as it’s the one and only, the only collection of universes and floors and elevators of its kind, or so the stories go. The book seems content to lose itself for much of its runtime in exploration of the world (which is amazing), but the pace changes abruptly in the final fifth of the book, rocketing forward so fast and coming to such a messy conclusion that it feels a bit rushed. But Fukuyama intended them to be two parts to a single grand work, so that’s how I consider them here. Carmen's mother continues dieting, forcing herself to get thinner and thinner, so it's no real surprise when Carmen starts purging too.

Seriously, upon preparing this review I reread the conclusion AGAIN and my continued reaction to it was “WTF did I just read?The aunt is probably the best among them, but even she seems oblivious to Carmen's illness because she only notices her sister's. objectively, but for me personally the Birmingham connection bumps it up and I'd give it a 3 (just). With over seven million copies of his books in print, Christopher Hart is the world's leading author of art instruction books. About halfway through I started getting more involved in the story and it started keeping my attention only to have a very abrupt ending which was a huge let down. Colin Murphy is the author of The Most Famous Irish People You've Never Heard Of and co-author of the bestselling 'Feckin' collection (The O'Brien Press).