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Nov 02, 2023plausible rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The bond of teenagers started in a gifted summer camp progressing throughout their adulthood with multiple viewpoints and timeline woven meticulously by the author with overlapping genres. It explores multiple facets of the human…
Apr 08, 2023CareyMacaulay rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
"Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should." The Interestings is a story about a life-long friendship between a group of 6 talented teenagers who meet at an artsy summer camp in…
Apr 22, 2020AndreaG_KCMO rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I was concerned by the predictability of the initial chapters, but Julie "Jules" Jacobson and her longing for life's finer things after an eye-opening summer away from home reminded me of my own coming-of-age. So I had to keep reading in…
Oct 15, 2019oliviaghersen rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Great read. Loved following the characters throughout their years as opposed to just having a snippet in their lives. Really well written.
Aug 06, 2019Alexandra_KK rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Overall, a nice read, good but not great. Quite an interesting storyline, well-developed characters. A bit slow-paced and boring at places.
Jul 24, 2019sgcf rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Wolitzer is a very fine writer who richly details the lives of the 6 main characters from teenage-hood, through adulthood to retirement age. Along the way they become nuanced, real-life people who change, struggle, encounter joy and…
Apr 25, 2019Tica77 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book is well written and reads well and quickly. The six friends whose lives are described over a thirty year period are very believable. Meeting at summer camp in the early seventies, four of those characters remain friends…
Mar 01, 2019
I kept going, hoping it would get better. I finally finished this book, but felt as if I’d wasted my time. I found this group of characters maddening and the whole story unredeeming.
Oct 05, 2018lukasevansherman rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"Slowly, the movement away from the creative, and toward the creativity of money, was becoming increasingly visible." New Yorker Meg Wolitzer has been writing novels for a while, but 2013's "The Interestings" brought her to the attention…
Jul 17, 2018EAHarris rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I found this book incredibly draggy. The characters were not very interesting and it was hard to care what happened to them. There was little plot, though I slogged on and finally finished it.
Jan 30, 2018swheeler89 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Hidden gem. Wolitzer develops these characters phenomenally, tracking friends in the coming of age from high school through middle age. Honestly, thought this was a non-fiction work because the characters were so believable and she wove it…
Apr 03, 2017vancouverville rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Like pretty much anything with an ensemble cast, this book has a lot of characters to love, or to like, or to not like very much. It's a coming of age story that follows shifting fortunes and relationships. I just wanted to keep reading.
Apr 01, 2017Telingro rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book— it was like a chronicle of these friends and families, but one that was so raw and realistic. Certainly, the last chapter gave a solid conclusion, though left me a bit wanting, in terms of "yes, everyone got…
Sep 04, 2016msp_pier rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
this is a character driven book about 6 best friends that meet at summer camp in 1974, and their lives for the next 30 years. i wanted to love this book, but some parts were very long-winded and i wanted to get to something…
KathyS82
Sep 18, 2015KathyS82 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A nice enjoyable read. I did get invested into the characters and wanted to know how their lives played out.
Jun 30, 2015Test_Brianna_222 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The Insipids.
Jun 02, 2015samdog123 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I've given this a 5 star review because the writing is just so well done. Reminiscent of John Irving, Wolitzer is a wonderful storyteller and she needs to be to keep your interest as the book is over 500 pages long with dense text on each…
Feb 21, 2015Persnickety77 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The more i reflect back on this book, the less i like it. i'm not sure why it bugged me so much, but it really did. the characters were lame, the plot was boring, the writing was uninspired. I don't know why it got such good reivews
Nov 19, 2014Chapel_Hill_ShannonB rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
It reminded me a bit of "Last of the Savages" by Jay McInerney and a little of Jeffery Eugenides' last book, "The Marriage Plot." I would recommend it to fans of either book and readers that enjoy complicated characters that may not…
BarbyReads
Nov 04, 2014BarbyReads rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Good read but a little predictable.
Jul 30, 2014peachy1 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The Interestings aren't.
Jul 25, 2014maipenrai rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
** stars. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become an inseparable group. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In "The Interestings", Wolitzer follows these…
Jun 29, 2014SLoMotion rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I listened to the audiobook while on vacation last year, and I remember being so engrossed in the characters and feeling haunted when it was over. As I enter my 30's, my own life, past friends, and events play before me in a parallel…
May 13, 2014CPL_Laura rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Wolitzer beautifully captures the personalities of several ambitious, artsy teens and the often wistful, sometimes disappointed adults they become. I absolutely adored this book, which would likely appeal to fans of Gail Godwin, Anne…
Apr 19, 2014kninchicago rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I couldn't put this book down, but I do have mixed feelings on it. It's about six teens who meet at an arts summer camp in the 70s. It follows the lives of four of the youth up through their 50s (aka through present time) with the…