Book: Prizes
Author: Erich Segal
Published: 1995 (Ballentine)
Pages: 497
This guy, y’all. THIS GUY.
He’s turned BORING. He’s PHONING IT IN.
I picked up Prizes during my last Book Dispensary shelving
stint before Thanksgiving for a spontaneous trashy-read vacation. And SEGAL
DISAPPOINTED ME. He heaped on clichés, over-explained metaphors, threw in a
surprised parentage and not one but two tragically fatal degenerating diseases,
and he forgot to make the actual plot, aka the race for the Nobel prize,
interesting AT ALL. All he threw in there were some three-quarter-hearted
purple prose romanticizing science between describing perfect soul mates, how
they would change the world, and the completely fabricated obstacles that never
actually cause any problem anyway.
Nicholas Sparks read Segal so hard, y’all. So hard.
Two sidenotes:
- Nobody should ever say “making love” except Robert Plant or Barry White. The end.
- Seriously, I think all these scientists are wasting away because they all sleep like two hours a night for years at a time. I guess that’s kind of realistic but it made me tired and skeptical.
I’m taking this to my parents’ house when I get back there
for Christmas because Mom said she wanted to read it. She can keep it. I’m okay
with that because she goes through a book pile exactly like I do which means
she’ll get to this in like ten years. Maybe I’ll be able to talk her out of it
by then.
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