Reviews for Disobedience

The average rating for Disobedience based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-14 00:00:00 Jan Smith This book grated against my skin, but I wouldn't say it was a bad book, and the secondary character- a die hard 11 year old civil war re-enactor who also happened to be a girl- was fascinating and I loved her. I kept wanting to stuff a sock in the narrator (her brother)'s mouth, to hear more about her. It was like being invited to someone else's family reunion, and finding yourself really interested in everyone in the family except for the one pouty, self involved teenager you are seated next to, and who monopolizes conversation for the next three hours, while picking at his acne. And sighing. A lot. Also- this is one of those rare, rare books for me in that my inability to be a teenage boy who is secretly monitoring his mother's on-line affair with a man not his father really limited my ability to be interested or sympathetic to the character or his struggles. I kept just feeling sort of grossed out that he was so into the details of his mom's affair. Yet again, Jane Hamilton managed to make me feel like she was treating the reader with contempt, and yet again, I read the whole thing, and the writing was very good, and the ideas were interesting. Jane Hamilton, I shake my fist ot your queasily sadistic writing!

Review # 2 was written on 2007-11-29 00:00:00 Frank Slavin I have enjoyed some Jane Hamilton books more than others. This one was very good. Her prose is beautiful, and her subject matter interesting. I liked the quirkiness of the characters (Civil War reenactments, musicians that play music most people have never heard). Their interests (sometimes obsessions) with the past sometimes made me forget that the setting was modern day… until it started talking about e-mail again. I particularly liked that she chose to tell the story that is largely about a woman’s adultery from the point of view of her son. This perspective was fascinating, especially because he can not identify with her as an adult or as a woman, which makes her actions so mysterious to him. I would definitely recommend this novel.