Review of 'Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
❤️
336 pages
Published May 9, 2017 by Pamela Dorman Books.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
4 stars
(20 reviews)
No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Review of 'Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I'm torn between so-so and pan (rating choices in Litsy). I guessed the "twist" from the very start. I finished the book downright irritated. I liked some of the relationships (primarily Raymond with anyone); but, overall, I'm underwhelmed (to put it nicely). The level of unbelievability is just too high. All that being said, I recognize that the range of wholly real/valid reactions to any book varies wildly, based on each reader's individual experiences up to the point of their reading.
Review of 'Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I'm torn between so-so and pan (rating choices in Litsy). I guessed the "twist" from the very start. I finished the book downright irritated. I liked some of the relationships (primarily Raymond with anyone); but, overall, I'm underwhelmed (to put it nicely). The level of unbelievability is just too high. All that being said, I recognize that the range of wholly real/valid reactions to any book varies wildly, based on each reader's individual experiences up to the point of their reading.
Review of 'Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I enjoyed this, very funny, characters are great and sweet, Gail Honeyman's writing group was very lucky to read and critique this. There were inconsistencies, though. The spoiler-ful list of inconsistencies are blogged elsewhere. I'll note that Sons of the Desert, the Laurel & Hardy movie Eleanor sits down to watch, does not have Stan & Ollie joining the Foreign Legion, that film would be Flying Deuces.
And yes, [here be spoilers] sbe gur nzbhag bs qevaxvat Ryrnabe qbrf, V vzntvarq ure gb or n zhpu ynetre jbzna, fb jura fur erprvirf Fnzzl'f fjrngre sebz uvf fba Xrvgu, V jnf fhecevfrq gung gur fjrngre jnf sne gbb ovt sbe ure gb jrne. Vg'f arire erirnyrq ubj n fvatyr zbgure bs gjb puvyqera nssbeqf n ubhfr va Znvqn Inyr naq pna nssbeq unhgr phvfvar sbe ure xvqf. Ryrnabe'f jrrxyl nhqvgbel unyyhpvangvbaf nyfb raq rknpgyl jura Ryrnabe jvfurf gurz …
I enjoyed this, very funny, characters are great and sweet, Gail Honeyman's writing group was very lucky to read and critique this. There were inconsistencies, though. The spoiler-ful list of inconsistencies are blogged elsewhere. I'll note that Sons of the Desert, the Laurel & Hardy movie Eleanor sits down to watch, does not have Stan & Ollie joining the Foreign Legion, that film would be Flying Deuces.
And yes, [here be spoilers] sbe gur nzbhag bs qevaxvat Ryrnabe qbrf, V vzntvarq ure gb or n zhpu ynetre jbzna, fb jura fur erprvirf Fnzzl'f fjrngre sebz uvf fba Xrvgu, V jnf fhecevfrq gung gur fjrngre jnf sne gbb ovt sbe ure gb jrne. Vg'f arire erirnyrq ubj n fvatyr zbgure bs gjb puvyqera nssbeqf n ubhfr va Znvqn Inyr naq pna nssbeq unhgr phvfvar sbe ure xvqf. Ryrnabe'f jrrxyl nhqvgbel unyyhpvangvbaf nyfb raq rknpgyl jura Ryrnabe jvfurf gurz gb. [/spoilers end]
