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A review by iuliatr
The Most Beautiful Book in the World: Eight Novellas by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
3.0
This was may first Schmitt book and I admit that I was curious about it, knowing that there's 2 shelves dedicated to him in my workplace, the local bookshop.
He definitely has a talent for writing, it's easy to understand and pretty catchy. The stories were...nice. I wouldn't go as far as calling it "the most beautiful book in the world". Far from it, actually.
I don't know why this man tends to write women as really cold and kind of...bitchy and there were some...problematic sentences but I tried to overlook them.
Odette's story though...must've been the most annoying out of all of them and it made me enjoy this book a lot less because it feels like we are taught that men cheat and we should deal with it, because in the end he will come back home to you. Am I crazy for thinking it shouldn't be like this? The amount of women thinking like this baffled me and I feel like this kind of literature plays a big role for this mentality.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll pick another Schmitt book anytime soon but this one wasn't horrible.
3
He definitely has a talent for writing, it's easy to understand and pretty catchy. The stories were...nice. I wouldn't go as far as calling it "the most beautiful book in the world". Far from it, actually.
I don't know why this man tends to write women as really cold and kind of...bitchy and there were some...problematic sentences but I tried to overlook them.
Odette's story though...must've been the most annoying out of all of them and it made me enjoy this book a lot less because it feels like we are taught that men cheat and we should deal with it, because in the end he will come back home to you. Am I crazy for thinking it shouldn't be like this? The amount of women thinking like this baffled me and I feel like this kind of literature plays a big role for this mentality.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll pick another Schmitt book anytime soon but this one wasn't horrible.
3