All Consuming : FausseParisienne

Consuming "Motherless Brooklyn"

nobody@allconsuming.net (FausseParisienne) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:25:18 GMT

by Jonathan Lethem

A story about "2 days in paris"

nobody@allconsuming.net (FausseParisienne) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:34:42 GMT

by Julie Delpy

I ADORE this movie. The dialogue is brilliant. It is clever and biting into every relationship. Familial, boy/girl, sibling….amazing. Also if you have every spent a considerable amount of time with someone else in their home land you will totally relate to tons of this.

It’s like blue cheese…it’s probably good for you.

A story about "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

nobody@allconsuming.net (FausseParisienne) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:25:24 GMT

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

This book was amazing. It’s forbidding and charming at the same time. Written a one long conversation with only one voice. Challenges you to decide what is said in honesty and what is said to mislead the other end of the conversation. Short and fast paced, which is a bummer as I wanted to read it forever.

Clever Take on Society and Family Structure

nobody@allconsuming.net (FausseParisienne) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:40:00 GMT

Geek Love: A Novel

by Katherine Dunn

Geek Love is a brilliant novel. It has much commentary on today’s events. It delves uniquely into the cult of personality that we see so frequently on the world’s stage. An inventive and fascinating view of the world.

Snobbish Trite Story of an American Bourgeois trying to be French Bourgeois

nobody@allconsuming.net (FausseParisienne) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:35:36 GMT

C'est La Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French

by Suzy Gershman

This story chronicles Suzy Gersham’s move to Paris after her husbands death. I wanted, I tried, to like this novel. I, like her, grew up in San Antonio before Moving to Paris, although not permanently. The similarities end there. She apparently had money falling out of her pockets. She complains of shopping for mattresses and linen’s, but travels all the way back to the states for a Butterball Turkey! Quoi? She talks about spending a $1000 to get her extra luggage back from the US and goes on end about how to move large furniture upstairs fo the small Paris flat.
When she’s not talking about saving and throwing away money, she’s name dropping. This chef, or writer, this director or famous florist. Ughhh who cares? I swear this women never went to real Paris. Everyone in her story is French or American were if you’ve ever lived in Paris a good chunk of the people you would meet are immigrants from all places imaginable (not just american ex-pats). This story is a lot like the tv show friends, a bunch of people that hardly work, have tons of income, and lives in an all white New York city.
Also she only mentions her husband’s almost as a side note. It’s completely surface novel. She should stick to writing shopping manuals and leave the novels up to writers that can really dig into themselves rather than into a good linen sale.