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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

Hardcover | Pages: 310 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 97210 Users | 11227 Reviews

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Title	:	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Author	:	Karen Joy Fowler
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	May 30th 2013 by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; now that she's started college, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone—vanished from her life. Her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And there was something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. You'll have to find out for yourself what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.

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Original Title:	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
ISBN:	0399162097 (ISBN13: 9780399162091)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rosemary Cooke, Lowell Cooke, Fern
Setting:	Bloomington, Indiana(United States) Davis, California(United States) Indianapolis, Indiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2014), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Shortlist (2015), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2014), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2013) John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2014), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2015), Specsavers National Book Award for International Author of the Year (2014)

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I could not relate to the characters and the choppy writing style! Wanted to like this book, and there were interesting elements, but I couldn't connect to the way the story was told. Forced myself to even skim the book. Am I the only person, it seems, who did not like it?

Further proof that the 2014 Man Booker Prize was an absolute farce. I was enjoying this novel until it went all Jane Goodall. I applaud its use of an unconventional narrative structure and Fowler's humourous prose but the plot just bored me. Like a sandwich from Quiznos, I had to really force myself to finish it. It would be fine without all the monkey business.

What a surprisingly interesting read. There's plenty of food for thought, right from the announcement that Rosemary had her "Own personal Schrodinger's Cat," to her insistence that memories cannot be trusted. Even so, these minor reveals are not the important pieces that frame this narrative structure. They may be emotional and harrowing, but the novel is much more than just this.It's really about our place in the universe and how "Others" fit within it, as well.I was confused from the very

Yep, I was beside myself!Kept imagining I was not still reading this!!Borrrring ... dulllll ...teeeeedious ... and more than a little drawn out.I really wanted to like it as I was excited to see a new release from Fowler. I enjoyed The Jane Austen Book Club (although it is one of those rare books where I actually liked the movie better).The whiny main character (the voice of this first-person narrative) got on my nerves; no wonder she had difficulty forming even fictional friendships. I couldn't

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has generated a lot of hype and gathered a large amount of positive reception, including praise from authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Andrea Barrett. But undoubtedly the biggest boost of all was the inclusion on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. This year's Booker was the first of its kind, as it has controversially accepted works by authors from outside the UK and the Commonwealth - and for a moment it looked as if the book by Karen Joy Fowler, an

I found the Fowler's book compelling and I'm glad that I knew very little about it before I began reading. The story became a discovery....I felt like I was along for a very emotional ride. It is a story of a dysfunctional family, of discovery of self, of the role of memory and recovery of childhood memory in adulthood, of loss, all through the eyes of daughter Rosemary. There is humor, pathos, anger, hurt, disappointment, love and hate, all the emotions you would expect to find between human

2.5* rounded up.I live under a rock. I do. Otherwise, I would have probably known what the big twist in this book was all about. But I didn't, and that was ok. However, even not knowing that there even is a twist didn't help me enjoy the book more than I did, and here is why: The beginning of the story was awesome - the MC, Rosemary Cooke, is inadvertently arrested when another woman goes mental on her ex-boyfriend in a cafeteria.What a great start to a story! Unfortunately, from there on the