Publisher’s Weekly reviews Beatrice and Virgil by saying: “The prose is amateur and the characters thin, the coy self-referentiality grates, and the fable at the center of the novel is unbearably self-conscious.” But BookNinja makes an important observation - “I suspect this is one of those books that will be taught for years and years to come, despite its critical failure today. Why? It’s teachable.” Oh, the poor high school English classes who will be forced to analyze this book like my class was forced to analyze Life of Pi.
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