A bit more on Revolutionary Road, and a bit bigger of a font, you'll be happy to realize.
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
My Anticipation Level Is: Extremely high. I wanted with a desperate yearning to see this movie, but managed to see Slumdog Millionaire instead, and obliviously sidestep any other attempts at seeing it, with such sincere delicacy I look back and think 'Oh! That's a shame, but I must have had a good reason for it!'. Anyway, yes, very very high anticipation level. Also, the reviews on it's cover are mesmerizingly positive.
Expected Time to Read: A bit longer than Green Gables because it is a wordier (in a lovely way) novel with smaller print. But, if I read at regular periods, not too terrible long.
Things I Like So Far: I'm only on page seven, but I like immediately how it draws you in with a sort of brittle sense of life, as though the very real humanity in the air were perched tentatively with the expectation of cracking. Also, it takes place in Connecticut. Also, I managed to buy the last copy without a movie-image cover. Huzzah!
Possible Fears: That my expectations are too high. But I really, really doubt it. "Beautifully crafted.... A remarkable and deeply troubling book." offers up Michiko Kakutani, of The New York Times. This sounds like a read I will like. Look how 'Possible Fears' turned into 'Such High Hopes!'.
Page Count: 7 of just around 340.
-s5g
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