What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Registered by BookGroupMan of Chester, Cheshire United Kingdom on 12/10/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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A bargain book from the brilliant 'Tattered Cover' bookstore in Denver, CO. This looks good, a modern classic(?) set in rural Iowa where i'm off to today for business, and made into a film with Depp & DiCaprio (Gilbert & Arnie). How many reasons does a person need to read a book!
(18/12) This is a gloriously individual family saga about the famous Grapes of Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling). Although we see the claustrophobic backward Midwest town through the eyes of Gilbert, it is his family who steal the show; soon-to-be-eighteen ‘retard’ Arnie, grossly obese mother Bonny, dead father, capable Amy, absent Larry, wildly pubescent Ellen and escapee Janice, the clever one. The sub-plot about GG falling madly in-fatuation with Becky from Ann Arbor who eats men, is a bit too odd and spiky to totally engage the reader.
I won’t give away the great ending, although suffice to say, GG finds what is ‘eating him’, the family discover the means to escape their shared past (and bleak future)…we can only hope.
This would make a great film. My, I believe it is already a film! This is now on my must-watch list.
(18/12) This is a gloriously individual family saga about the famous Grapes of Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling). Although we see the claustrophobic backward Midwest town through the eyes of Gilbert, it is his family who steal the show; soon-to-be-eighteen ‘retard’ Arnie, grossly obese mother Bonny, dead father, capable Amy, absent Larry, wildly pubescent Ellen and escapee Janice, the clever one. The sub-plot about GG falling madly in-fatuation with Becky from Ann Arbor who eats men, is a bit too odd and spiky to totally engage the reader.
I won’t give away the great ending, although suffice to say, GG finds what is ‘eating him’, the family discover the means to escape their shared past (and bleak future)…we can only hope.
This would make a great film. My, I believe it is already a film! This is now on my must-watch list.
Journal Entry 2 by BookGroupMan at To A Non-Bookcrosser in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, January 4, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (1/4/2008 UTC) at To A Non-Bookcrosser in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Sending in a parcel to a colleague...the book is travelling back home to the USA (bought in Denver, read in Des Moines)
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Sending in a parcel to a colleague...the book is travelling back home to the USA (bought in Denver, read in Des Moines)
If you find this book please write a journal; read the book if you wish; pass it on. Welcome to BookCrossing :)
