Jennifer L. (jennymarie) reviewed on 12/29/2009 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

This was the second Richard Russo book I have read. The first was "The Bridge of Sighs". Both left me disappointed in the end. A friend of mine who has read both of these in addition to "Empire Falls" said that "Empire Falls" was the better of the three. I feel as though Russo's writing tends to be over desprictive and under plot in the sense that you're reading more of a biography than a actual sequence of events. I found myself saying "get on with it already" several times in the book. As a previous review stated, the novel does exhibit a well defined and realistic family profile. Perhaps this is Russo's main goal in writing and I'm expecting something that is not in the author's preference.

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