This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes Reviews

Of course it's not going to 'save your life', it's a fictional book! But I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and I have no idea why. There isn't much of a plot; the story doesn't ever seem to be going anywhere. Richard Novak is a rich man living in LA, who experiences a lot of physical and emotional pain. His whole character appears to be quite ...  Read the complete review

Richard Novak is a man apart. Literally. Living in the Los Angeles hills, financially sustained in his successes as a stock market daytrader, he has shed all meaningful contact from his life, eschewing family and friends in favour of an isolationist existence. Richard's rather aimless malaise of a life is suddenly interrupted by an ...  Read the complete review

don't be fooled by the donuts, its not a book about donuts, they are merely a backdrop to the main story. a story that comes across as it was written. uncomplicated yet meaningful. the story revolves around richard novak, a man for whom life has become as repetative as the sun going down and the moon coming up. that is until a health scare turns ...  Read the complete review

---Greek lightning--- Yes, I know it's been a while. In the time that I have been neglecting the interweb I have, in fact, been having a real life. Don't gasp like that, it's just not cool. The main reason I fell off the face of the planet was that I went on holiday for two glorious weeks in the sunshine. I spent my days lounging round ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, let me say, this is not the sort of book I usualy read. I am into Micheal Crichton, Stephen King, and when I feel intellectual, Richard Dawkins or something related to therapy or social constructionism. It was only when I was heading for Waterstones checkout with a bunch of 'murder, death, kill' books under my arm I thought: ...  Read the complete review

'This Book Will Save Your Life' may not save your life, but it will definitaly make you look at it in a new way. It features a man disconnected from the world, who suffers a life scare, and it makes him realise that he has to do something to stop his life from becoming a waste. There is a series of odd events, a new best friend, a son with whom ...  Read the complete review

I was out in my local supermarket the other week. I fancied something sweet. I stood in front of the Krispy Kreme doughnut cabinet for a while trying to figure out how many more miles I would have to walk if I bought one when I spotted 6 calorie free doughnuts in the next aisle. Not another self-help book I thought to myself when I ...  Read the complete review

A 57-year-old man experiences a pain attack and when he’s asked in hospital who he wants to call, he doesn’t know what to answer. Existential angst sets in, “He didn’t want to die. He couldn’t die. He hadn’t even lived yet.” Nothing serious can be found, though, and when he’s back home, he decides to change his life. So far, so ...  Read the complete review

This is the first book by A.M. Homes that I have read and thus I had no preconceptions of my own approaching it. The professionals' reviews uttered things like 'glass-sharp' and 'acid-etched' while the readers' ones were more along the lines of 'nice' and 'uplifting'. And Stephen King said that it might even save somebody's life. There ...  Read the complete review