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A review by tigerlipgloss
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
0.75
I only finished this because my MIL has labeled it as her absolute favorite book ever and I will never trust another recommendation from her. I should have DNFed after the first chapter, but I suffered through trying to give it a chance.
There is absolutely no plot and every character is horrible. Even the one child is awful, she is suppose to be a 6-7 year old but talks and behaves like she is 70.
So much happens in this book but nothing is accomplished. The author covers suicide, racism, religious trauma, religious persecution, war, war crimes, radicalism, turtle rescue, cancer, mental health, alcoholism, and abuse. However, even with nearly 800 pages, I have no clue what the author’s stance is on any of those issues.
Conroy’s descriptions are insufferable, at one point he spends a page and a half describing a tomato sandwich and I do not even know if the character enjoyed it or ate it.
Seriously, do not even try.
There is absolutely no plot and every character is horrible. Even the one child is awful, she is suppose to be a 6-7 year old but talks and behaves like she is 70.
So much happens in this book but nothing is accomplished. The author covers suicide, racism, religious trauma, religious persecution, war, war crimes, radicalism, turtle rescue, cancer, mental health, alcoholism, and abuse. However, even with nearly 800 pages, I have no clue what the author’s stance is on any of those issues.
Conroy’s descriptions are insufferable, at one point he spends a page and a half describing a tomato sandwich and I do not even know if the character enjoyed it or ate it.
Seriously, do not even try.