The book description sounded interesting, but I could not get into it. I wanted to see the movie, but decided to read the book first. If not for the movie, I would have put the book down. One of the main characters, Frank, is selfish and narcisistic. He is unfaithful to his wife many times and ends up breaking his last mistress' heart. I felt sorry for Alice, but then in the end, didn't feel too sorry for her as she ended up being almost as bad as Frank. She comes to the conclusion that she never loved him and she spends an evening in the back of a car with a man. Frank and Alice have a couple that they are good friends with (not really, but it is the couple they hang out with the most) and this is the man she has sex with in the car. His name is Shep. Shep decided a while ago that he worships Alice from afar...
The book also throughs in a couple that lives next door to Frank and Alice, Mr. & Mrs. Givings, who have a son who is committed to a sanitarium from time to time. Alice can't stand Mrs. givings, neither can Frank. this whole twiest to the story doesn't make sense and doesn't add much ro it, other than to help Frank think that Alice is possibly off her rocker herself, but doesn't get into that idea much...
Alice almost aborted her first child herself. A friend told her how to do it. Frank was so upset that she would even suggest doing this to their child. Alice wanted to end the child's life since she conceieved accidently too soon in their marriage. She ends up wanting to do the same thing to the third child. She had concocted a plan for their family to move to Europe and this fouled up their future. Frank still doesn't want her to abort the child, expecially herself. The safe window to do this is the first trimester. Frank ends up telling Alice about his most serious fling with Maureen. Alice told him he never should have said a thing. She tells him that she never loved him. While their two children are in the care of Milly, Alice performs the procedure (which is now past the supposed safety zone) on herself. She wrote a note to her husband, short one, in case she wouldn't survive. Of course, she doesn't. Bu she his the equipment so it looked like a miscarriage.
In the end, his wife Milly gossips to every new person, especially the ones who buy Frank and Alice's home, about Alice's death. Shep can't stand it when she does this.
I just had to read the book to get to the end. I don't think I'll go see the movie. I was so disappointed. I don't understand all the rage about the book or the movie. I have trouble with people who are in love with themselves and put themselves above others. I don't see how I can go watch the movie.
I wouldn't waste my time reading this book or seeing the movie if I were you.
The book also throughs in a couple that lives next door to Frank and Alice, Mr. & Mrs. Givings, who have a son who is committed to a sanitarium from time to time. Alice can't stand Mrs. givings, neither can Frank. this whole twiest to the story doesn't make sense and doesn't add much ro it, other than to help Frank think that Alice is possibly off her rocker herself, but doesn't get into that idea much...
Alice almost aborted her first child herself. A friend told her how to do it. Frank was so upset that she would even suggest doing this to their child. Alice wanted to end the child's life since she conceieved accidently too soon in their marriage. She ends up wanting to do the same thing to the third child. She had concocted a plan for their family to move to Europe and this fouled up their future. Frank still doesn't want her to abort the child, expecially herself. The safe window to do this is the first trimester. Frank ends up telling Alice about his most serious fling with Maureen. Alice told him he never should have said a thing. She tells him that she never loved him. While their two children are in the care of Milly, Alice performs the procedure (which is now past the supposed safety zone) on herself. She wrote a note to her husband, short one, in case she wouldn't survive. Of course, she doesn't. Bu she his the equipment so it looked like a miscarriage.
In the end, his wife Milly gossips to every new person, especially the ones who buy Frank and Alice's home, about Alice's death. Shep can't stand it when she does this.
I just had to read the book to get to the end. I don't think I'll go see the movie. I was so disappointed. I don't understand all the rage about the book or the movie. I have trouble with people who are in love with themselves and put themselves above others. I don't see how I can go watch the movie.
I wouldn't waste my time reading this book or seeing the movie if I were you.
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