This Book Will Save Your Life

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This Book Will Save Your Life

This Book Will Save Your Life

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Through the course of the novel Richard makes several new male friends, including Anhil and Nic. How do men make friendships as adults and is that an easy or a hard thing for them to do?

I’ve always written about families—couples and marriage—and the ways we fail ourselves and each other. And in this new novel, I’m at it once again. Despite how fractured these families may seem, I do believe strongly in family and marriage and very much want to see people learning to communicate and be more successful in their relationships. All relationships are hard work, even “just” owning a dog.tipik beyaz dertleri özel spor hocaları, beslenme uzmanları, koşu bantlarıyla geçen misler gibi bir hayat, evinin önünde bir yarık (metafora tikel) açılmasıyla sekteye uğruyor. They get in line for the driving ride. You must be at least three years old and so high to go on this ride. This one made me stop and think. It made me seriously reflect about decisions I have made in my life and the impact my actions had on others, such as my kids. Sure, we sometimes think about these things, BUT this book made me REALLY think about it, wallow in it, really think of the consequences of my actions. To be sad in the moment. To be uncomfortable. To not like myself Wonderfully skewed stories . . . sharp, funny, and playful . . . Homes is confident and consistent in her odd departures from life as we know it, sustaining credibility by getting details right. A fully engaged imagination [is] at work—and play.”—Amy Hempel, The Los Angeles Times

Early on in the novel, Richard describes his eating habits and himself as “Mr. Healthy”: “I eat cereal that the nutritionist makes for me; it tastes like wood chips. I drink Lactaid milk. I never break the rules.” From his neighbor’s intravenous vitamin infusions to the assortment of pies proffered as goodwill tokens, food and eating take on a peculiar glow in the novel. In what ways does Homes use food and eating—sustenance—as a metaphor? The only things I believe in are God and a clean house. Are you going to put your headphones on or do I have to talk to you all day." Cecelia takes her can of Endust to the window and looks out. "Not only is there a hole," Cecelia says. "There's a horse in the hole." A commanding narrative…by turns witty and unnerving, and at times almost unbearable in its emotional intensity.”— Wall Street Journal Richard isn't ready either; he's nervous, excited, almost overwhelmed, it's too much stimulation—maybe the vet should give him a little shot as well. Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life. So why are we here? Why are we afraid of suffering? Why do we try and avoid suffering? We do we think it is wrong to suffer? We medicate, we medicate we are desperate not to suffer”This is the story of Richard, the flawed but loveable protagonist. It is equally the story of the myriad of characters that are similarly finding their way and shaping each other’s lives in the process – memorably, Anhil, the jewish doughnut maker, Cynthia the under appreciated house wife, Nic, the somewhat feral novelist, and Richard’s coming of age son Ben. We are all seeking connections. We all yearn. And in this book the world is the Los Angeles landscape of plastic dreamy heartbreak. Are you a good parent? A good Samaritan? Are you even aware of who you are? And who are these characters that weave in and out of your life leaving merely a smudge of an impression?

A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact. The hero of Homes’s latest novel (after Music for Torching, 1999)—a work of guarded but very real optimism and, ultimately, of redemption—is Richard Novak, a California-style Scrooge. Enthralling . . . full of subversive humor and truth . . . original and stiletto sharp.”— The Washington Post If you have any ideas about the ending and what was going on there, I'd love to hear from you. I am so over the ambiguous ending, especially in a book that's not really good enough on its own for me to care. But I do want to know what happened to the dog. I loved this book. I loved every single character in this book. From Anhil, the existentialist donut man, to the overworked ex-wife (she who shall not be named, I guess), to misguided, sweet Ben, to the misunderstood, sweet Nic, to Cynthia---who I can so relate to---but most of all, I love Richard.No, it won't. A.M. Homes's This Book Will Save Your Life can't even generate enough energy to save itself.

Americans try on the spiritual life of others like they don’t have any of their own,” Anhil says. How has the importance of the spiritual life changed over time in America? So will this book actually save your life? Probably not. But if you read it, you will learn a few things: That it’s never too late to try again, relationships can be mended, pain can be felt and endured, that the world is full of wonderful people and wonderful experiences if only you open yourself up to the possibilities. These are things we forget when we are suffering. We tend to withdraw, hide ourselves away, retreat into ourselves and allow our pain to engulf us. For me this book was a much needed reminder that life does go on, if only you live it.

Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. There’s this great scene towards the end. Richard takes his 17 yr. old estranged son to DisneyLand. You can see that Ben is fighting something, trying to recapture some sense of his lost childhood. He’s fighting with his father, yelling at him while riding the teacups or waiting for Space Mountain and Richard is taking it, feeling like he deserves it. Ben’s trying to work out all these emotions, worried about an expiration date or something---afraid to see this day end. And there’s this scene:



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