Comment by 🐝 pirkka
Re: "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"
I see lots of good reviews. Blinkist posted a very brief overview of the plot and key events, but the thing that makes me consider getting my hands on this book is "well-developed characters" mentioned a few times in reviews. I see it's available in my country on libro.fm, so there's a (potentially nice-to-listen-to) audiobook as well. The only thing is, I picked up Kafka on the Shore, and it's promising to take me a while to finish the book, whose first chapter started so strong (that's kind of a thing that Haruki Murakami does). I'm gonna come back in a few months and maybe ready to share a few thoughts, maybe
On a scale from butterflies to blood everywhere, how much violence is in this book? Asking, because I usually don't enjoy action of this kind. Specifically, I do not enjoy reading that and try to avoid, so would appreciate any tips and hints
Mar 13 · 8 weeks ago
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🚀 stack [OP] · Mar 13 at 21:39:
Violence... A little of a trick question -- there is absolutely no violence that happens, but the book is largely about the main character learning to deal with things that happened long ago. Overall, an amazingly kind and strangely uplifting story.
My partner listened to the audiobook and said it was read extremely well, so it's a good option.
Apparently Reece Witherspoon was trying to make a movie version a couple of years ago, but nothing happened yet.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — by Gail Honeyman Totally recommend this odd and wonderful fast read. I hope this Scottish author has another novel soon.