Reviews for Moo

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

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-13 00:00:00 Michael Solof Wow, can I give less than 1 star? This is going in to that rare list of "books I cannot even get through." It makes me very sad that this woman can get published (and apparently won an award at some point in her life!) and I have friends who can actually WRITE who cannot. Imagine if the author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" had written his 150 pages of character development, but hadn't actually been able to make you care about any of the characters. Or, in fact, been able to convince you read past the first 50 pages. And trust me, I was bored enough at work that night that I would have read ANYTHING, but it was pretty much sheer horror that got me that far in to the book. To be fair, it wasn't entirely Ms. Smiley's writing that made this book a complete dud. Her editor should be shot too. How do you not catch the run-on sentence that goes for NINE lines? Especially when it happens overandoverandoverandoverand... Seriously, what were they on to miss that? Oh, and to say nothing of the basic spelling errors all through the book... Okay, I think I have made my point, no? On to bigger and better things.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-21 00:00:00 Benjamin Guyer Jane Smiley, a former academic, is pitch perfect in this subtle yet scathing account of academic life in a small Midwestern town. As a former graduate student who had more than his fill of graduate school, this book was both wonderful and horrifying to read. I recommend this book to anyone thinking of attending graduate school, or as a medicine for those still recovering from the absurdity of it.