how do we feel about Anita Shreve?

[NaughtyNigel]

? that's it really?

how do you feel about her books?

have read a few, but they are all quite repetitive in theme, havne't read one for years and years

read a few, they were OK, sort of superior chick lit.

yup. chick lit but somewhat enjoyable in a repetative sort of way.
good but i don't have to concentrate too much.

I read one of hers. Hated it. Won't be doing it again.

Read "The Pilot's Wife", on terra firma, and found it to be fairly usual, a bit week in characterisation, plot a bit left-field. Not too impressed.

why??

Waswondering, I read "Light on Snow" , the one about the abandoned baby, just after having ds3 in hospital!

To answer the OP, I've only read "Light on Snow" and it didn't really inspire me to rush out and buy any more!

Have read a few. Quick and easy to read, but a bit superficial, I thought - was surprised to find that she's supposedly a respected prof of creative writing somewhere.

Some of them are OK, but I think that's more to do with the original idea - the baby in the snow, the abused wife on the run, the plane crash etc etc.

The books that lack a real story line don't make up for in any other way like in other novels eg brilliant characterisation - and therefore are just dire.

Saying all that though I've still read them all

I've read a few and found them all wishy washy, but easy and quick to read.

Not so impressed - read one and have no interest in reading any more of her books.

forgot - started reading " A wedding in December" but interest waned - nothing to recommend. V. boring, I'm afraid.

Um, overrated.
Read one, then another, and realised they were pretty formulaic. I felt vaguely conned as the review I'd read of her work in general had indicated a depth and substance that I couldn't find.

For me, perfect holiday reading. Easy read, but better than a lot of the crap out there. Ditto Anne Tyler.

I read one of her books at a writing retreat - it was in their library. I thought if it was there, it was probably a good read. (Don't know WHY!)
It was quite a romantic, dreamy kind of narrative with a big twist at the end - the woman in the romance, she'd died 20 years earlier and you realised the romance was entirely in the head of the guy who had driven off a road into a stream and accidentally killed her.

It totally undermined the story, didn't hold up structurally (i.e. he was walking around having CONVERSATIONS with someone who didn't exist).

I was very disappointed and a bit shocked and then I realised what kind of book it was - but it took me to the end before I twigged.

So that was probably me being slow and a bit thick but I'd never read her again.

Poodlepusher, I've read that book. I thought it was rubbish and I've never read another one of Shreve's books again.

I keep starting "A Wedding in December" but just can't get beyond the first few pages. I did like "Fortune's Rocks", although the age gap between the lovers was a bit questionable.

I read "All he ever wanted" and I found it quite dreary.

She is one lazy cow.

The Pilots Wife, so much potential, and she threw it away with a lazy plot.

The only one I've finished was The Pilot's Wife, started a few others and abandoned them petty quickly as found them dull.

I've never read any before but got Wedding in December out of the library and ditched it after a few chapters. I was skipping half of it - Agnes's book - then found all the backgrounds to the characters tedious. Maybe the story is ok once it gets going but I'm not going to bother finding out!

Whaaa?

You bunch of bitches.

And you are one lazy cow....be honest.