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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)

de Lionel Shriver

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7,6533931,122 (4.09)1 / 701
Eva never really wanted to be a mother and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklyn.… (més)
  1. 81
    Nineteen Minutes de Jodi Picoult (bnbookgirl, BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: Both of these novels are about school shootings and the alienated teenage boys responsible for them. 'We need to talk about Kevin' depicts the complex relationships within the shooter's family, whereas 'Nineteen minutes' focuses on the larger community affected by the event.… (més)
  2. 81
    Columbine de Dave Cullen (GCPLreader)
  3. 60
    The Fifth Child de Doris Lessing (christiguc, humppabeibi, kjuliff)
    christiguc: Both are books that explore the nature vs. nurture question in disturbing situations.
  4. 50
    Before and After de Rosellen Brown (BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: Both of these novels tell haunting, harrowing stories about the family relationships of teenage boys who commit unthinkable crimes: in 'We need to talk about Kevin' a school shooting, and in 'Before and after' a teenager's murder of his girlfriend.… (més)
  5. 62
    Defending Jacob de William Landay (arielfl, Booksloth)
    arielfl: Both books are about bad seed boys who murder and who have mothers who have an inkling about their true nature and with fathers who deny, deny, deny.
  6. 30
    The Hour I First Believed de Wally Lamb (freddlerabbit)
  7. 30
    Hey Nostradamus! de Douglas Coupland (verenka)
    verenka: Both books deal with the aftermath of school shootings but from different perspectives.
  8. 10
    The Wrong Mother de Sophie Hannah (JeaniusOak)
    JeaniusOak: Both novels explore difficult themes surrounding Motherhood.
  9. 10
    El Sopar de Herman Koch (INTPLibrarian)
    INTPLibrarian: Disturbed child and parents dealing with it. Both with twists / unexpected parts.
  10. 10
    A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy de Sue Klebold (TheLittlePhrase)
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  12. 00
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  13. 00
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Es mostren 1-5 de 393 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Not sure if this is a 2* or a 4* book. Don't feel it deserves a bland 3 - sometimes a 2 is better than a 3.

On the positives, the book is very engrossing. The two main characters (one the narrator) are nicely defined and complex. It's an interesting topic, and there is a good, page-turn-inducing sense of menace growing steadily.

On the downsides... Well, it's frankly unbelievable. Some of the reactions of people to the more... unusual events seem ludicrous, and that in turn makes other people's reactions to their reactions ludicrous. I feel that Shriver was trying to walk a line between foreshadowing, without undermining the plot, and I don't think she succeeded.

I think the book would have been more resonant, more powerful without the big school shooting. There is no suggestion that this is supposed to help understand why people commit such atrocities - each seems to be considered as sui generis (although banal in its unoriginality, and the predictability that they will reoccur). No, the book is more about bringing up a difficult and disturbing child, and I feel would have been better left at that. But, and this may be a trifle unfair no Shriver, that would have been less headline-grabbing.

I'm also not convinced of how realistic it is that Kevin's behaviour and psycopathic tendencies - kinda obvious as they are here - would have been undetected or ignored for so long. Again, Shriver seems to want to have her cake and eat it here.

Finally, I feel there's supposed to be a big reveal, but it was telegraphed so far in advance that it's not surprising when it happens (which I wouldn't mind, except it was built up so much). Again - I think I see the balance she was going for, but feel she missed it by a wide margin. Which, isn't a bad summation of how I feel about the book in general.
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
This book was, ...whew, well to say it was good or enjoyable doesn't quite fit, though it is stunningly well written in a technical sense. The reading certainly isn't "enjoyable", the whole thing extracts a toll on you even as you eagerly, apprehensively turn the next page, it is a profoundly searing, moving book, and as if by magic, the trauma on the pages wounds you as well. Lionel Shriver's prose is inspired and lambent and her skill for unsettling and unnerving, for taking a simple scene you're familiar with and turning it into a nightmare, is absolute. By all means read this book, but do not read it lightly, it will affect you, it will make you consider the worst case scenarios of parenting and relationships in general. ( )
  Autolycus21 | Oct 10, 2023 |
What causes a child to be evil? Is it the fault of the parents or a genetic mistake? Can a mother love a child who is a monster? This book tackles these questions with an unsettling ferociousness that will chill your bones. The horrors that take place in the novel will haunt you. Written over twenty years ago, it still resonates. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
There's a reason why this book is so popular. Its the subject matter.

No doubt you’ve read the reviews about how the author hasn't met a pretentious adverb or adjective she didn't like. This is true. But I also think this is in character with the narrator. It’s the style of language she would be most likely to use.

It's a disturbing book. Terrible things happen. Hideous things. I'm not sure that all the school shooters in America start out as demon seeds right out of the birth canal, but it fits with the auhtor's narrative.

The narrator is an unreliable narrator to some degree. She's responsible for more than she lets on.

In the end, it’s worth a read because of the subject matter. You pick up this book for the same reason you stay glued to the cable news after a school shooting. It's difficult to avert your eyes from the car wreck. ( )
  dmtrader | Aug 4, 2023 |
I made it about half way through this book and I can honestly say it is NOT for me. It was so hard to read with how brutal the Mother sees her son and how evil he seemed to be. Lionel's writing is so incredible, but the story itself made me feel sick.

And I'm sure you can pick apart this book. There's no way a kid is evil from the get go in a "realistic" book (this isn't sci-fi or fantasy). The Mother herself could be putting this image on the kid since she is all about herself. There's so many options, but I just couldn't do it.

So this is a one star/DNF book for me. I tried, I really did. I'm sure any other readers will enjoy it, but I know when to stop for my own sanity and mental health. ( )
  Briars_Reviews | Aug 4, 2023 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 393 (següent | mostra-les totes)
A powerful, gripping and original meditation on evil
 
At a time when fiction by women has once again been criticised for its dull domesticity, here is a fierce challenge of a novel by a woman that forces the reader to confront assumptions about love and parenting, about how and why we apportion blame, about crime and punishment, forgiveness and redemption and, perhaps most significantly, about how we can manage when the answer to the question why? is either too complex for human comprehension, or simply non-existent.
afegit per ddematthews | editaThe Independent, Lisa Gee (Apr 7, 2005)
 
The epistolary method Shriver uses, letters to Eva's absent husband, strains belief, yet ultimately that's not what trips us up. It's Eva's relentless negativity that becomes boring and repetitive in the first half of the book, the endless recounting of her loss of svelteness, her loss of freedom.
afegit per stephmo | editaSalon.com, Barbara O'Dair (Aug 12, 2004)
 
Maybe there are books to be written about teenage killers and about motherhood, but this discordant and misguided novel isn't one of them.
afegit per stephmo | editaThe Guardian, Sarah A. Smith (Nov 15, 2003)
 
A little less, however, might have done a lot more for this book. A guilt-stricken Eva Khatchadourian digs into her own history, her son's and the nation's in her search for the responsible party, and her fierceness and honesty sustain the narrative; this is an impressive novel, once you get to the end.

afegit per Waldheri | editaNew York Times, Matthew Flamm (Aug 3, 2003)
 

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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Shriver, LionelAutorautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Calzada, JavierTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Cartano, FrancoiseTraductionautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Frick-Gerke, ChristineTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Jiménez, Javier CalzadaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Koch, SaraTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Komló, ZoltánTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Mosse, KateIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Predoiu, IoanaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ribeiro, VeraTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Rosenblat, BarbaraNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Strempel, GesineTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Trouw, MiekeTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Vieira, BethTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Vilcu, IoanaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat

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Eva never really wanted to be a mother and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklyn.

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