The Accidental: A novel
 

The Accidental: A novel

by Ali Smith

Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.” Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her “style, ideas, and punch.” Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait... (read more)

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Liked It

Filipa B
  • Rated 4 stars

Difficult beginning, but just fantastic all the way through! Luckily I did not gave up :) Please also bear with it!
I just love the way she writes, with the different characters and the style, very very nice because it challenges your "normal" reading habits :)
I liked the story, although I do agree that some characters just made me: "arghhh!" But that's one of the goals of literature, no?

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Didn’t Like It

Tina
  • Rated 2 stars

This book started off with much difficulty in reading. The author does not use much punctuation, she starts a chapter without telling you which character she is talking about until a few pages in, it is just hard to get started overall. Each of our members read and re-read the first chapter about 8 times!! It is not "wickedly humorous", there is not one ounce of humor in it! The summary of the book sounds much better than the actual story itself. I wish it could have been written differently!...

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Community:
  • Rated 3.131313 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.142857 stars
 

Newest Comments

  • Monica C

    monica c said:

    I got about halfway through and quit reading this book. I just didn't care what happened to any of the characters.

    posted Sunday, March 30 2008
  • libation

    libation said:

    It's not disturbing. It's just pointless and unfocused.

    posted Wednesday, May 30 2007
  • Aerynrox

    aerynrox said:

    Should I read this?

    Is it too disturbing?

    posted Monday, April 9 2007
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