Queste due protagoniste? Più antipatiche non le potevo trovare. Jane è una lagna, deve sempre trovare significati nascosti in tutte le cose, quando la risposta giusta è sempre la più semplice.
Martha è presuntuosa e saccente, fossi stata Jane non mi sarei certa fatta tutti questi patemi d'animo per averla persona come amica.
Mi sarebbe piaciuto appassionarmi di più alle parti scientifiche, ma la verità è che le saltavo a piè pari. Noia.
Insomma, Cathleen, io lo so che sei brava e che scrivi romanzi meravigliosi, ma nello scrivere questo romanzo, come si dice a scuola, "non ti sei applicata". Non preoccuparti, io ho fiducia in te e non smetterò di leggere i tuoi libri. Ma per questa volta, sono costretta a darti un voto basso.
Cathleen Schine
L'evoluzione di Jane
Mondadori
Lire 7900
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I must apologize to Mrs Schine if I make her sad. But I didn't fall in love with this book. I've read it because I really loved "The Love Letter", and when I saw her name in the cover I thought she wasn't going to disappoint me. I was sure I was loving it. Instead... Well, it wasn't. And if I finished it, it was just because a sense of duty, always because that gorgeous novel.
The two main characters? I never found more annoying characters. Jane is a whiner, she has to find hidden meanings in everything, when the right answer is always the simplest one.
Martha is presumptous and conceited, If I were Jane I wouldn't have all those worries about her friendship.
I would like to enjoy more the scientific parts, but the truth is that I skipped those. Boring.
So, Cathleen, I am aware you are a very good writer of novels, but for this one, as teachers says at school, "you didn't apply yourself". Don't worry, I trust you and I won't stop to read your novels. But this time, I'm sorry, I'll judge you with a bad grade.
Cathleen Schine
The evolution of Jane
