Reviews for Amy Tan: A Literary Companion

The average rating for Amy Tan: A Literary Companion based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-15 00:00:00 Lisa Sica The English literature experts are most likely rolling their eyes at me but I stick by my rating of 1 star. To me, there was no substance to this story. I won't even get into the strange way of Hemingway's writing. The book is about several mid-aged friends that basically meet or run into each other at various cafes and clubs in Paris. Some like each other; some don't. For the majority, they usually consume large amounts of wine each day. The main female character is one that most of the men seem to be in love with. Towards the end of the book they head to Spain for the week of festivals surrounding the bullfights. I have plans to also read For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms but I am rethinking that if they appear to be anything like this. I read them all some 45 yrs ago and thought it would be good to do that again.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-16 00:00:00 Logan Murphy Read this for my master's. This was bad. I sincerely cannot give a better rating to a book that compares the act of literary activty to sexual intercourse and then proceed to use r*pe an analogy for so called "textual violations". You don't do this. You don't compare sexual abuse to the act of omitting something from a text or the fragmentation of a text. This was disgusting.