Pros: Articulate writing, an interesting premise, good character development. Cons: Just...never grabbed me.
Zadie Smith's first novel, White Teeth, has won wide critical acclaim and collected several literary prizes to boot. So I had fairly high expectations when I began reading it. Unfortunately, I don't believe the book lived up to the hype. ...
Pros: humor, intelligence, character development, ambition Cons: ending not as good as rest of the book
Zadie Smith's debut novel, White Teeth, is a book to fall in love with. A bold, exciting new voice on the literary front, the 24 year old Cambridge graduate has a lot to say and never runs out of ways to say it. Though perhaps too in love...
Pros: Superb word usage, extraordinary powers of observation, wide-ranging without being difficult, funny cutting humor. Cons: Cutting humor, cutting almost-everything; the measure of everyone and the value of no one?
As a reviewer, i expect to provide plenty of words of my own, but sometimes a writer makes her own best case. White Teeth has a plot, and a structure, and both are well-handled, but not in a stay-up-all-night must-see-what-comes-next sort of way. ...
Pros: Smith is a powerful storyteller with a knack for interesting phrasing. Cons: The ending is a bit of a disappointment.
On a recent solitary road trip from Dallas to Houston, I happened to catch an interview with Zadie Smith on NPR’s Weekend Edition. I had just finished reading White Teeth, and was immediately riveted…I turned up the volume, closed the...
Pros: A wonderfully written evocation of the lives of two families in late 20th century London. Cons: The ultimate resolution fails to fully satisfy.
Already hailed by many reviewers as a contemporary classic, White Teeth, the debut novel of 24-year-old Zadie Smith, is a fascinating, deftly-rendered evocation of the cultural mosaic that is modern London. Although it ultimately fails to convey...
Pros: sharp fine writing by Zadie Smith Cons: ending is a bit weak
I have a question: What is it with women writers my age or near my age writing incredible novels?? Not that I'm jealous...um, a little bit... okay, a lot! Okay, I shouldn't be jealous, I shouldn't be jealous-excuse me, I'm going to do some breathing...
Pros: Beginnings of great characters Cons: Smith doesn't know what to do with them
On the first page of the book, Archie Jones is parked on an anonymous London street with exhaust filling his car. “He was prepared for it. He had flipped a coin and stood staunchly by the results. This was a decided-upon suicide.”
Oh, how I wanted to hate this novel. Cross-continental literary sensation Zadie Smith, breaking into the stiff white male Booker Prize bastion in her native UK, is an attractive, bespectacled, twentysomething woman whose debut novel, White Teeth,...
Pros: Its addresses serious issues Cons: The story line is convoluted and rambling
White Teeth is Zadie Smith's first novel and it falls victim to many of the weaknesses common to first novels. There is a lack of polish and cohesiveness that permeates the book. Parts of the book are wordy and rambling while other parts are so sparsely...
Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth is less a tragedy than it is a dark comedy because, apart from fading war memories, there is no tragic death in White Teeth but the death of faith. It is rather more about clashing belief systems on familial and societal...
Pros: Zadie is a very poised writer indeed!Her book has a witty and savvy flow. Cons: Ending
Zadie Smith's first novel, White Teeth was a gamble for me to buy. I didn't hear any reviews regarding this author, but I expected a fresh original read. I purchased her book for about twenty-one-dollars at Border's book store in Huntington, WV. She a...
Pros: Funny, inventive, kaleidoscopic Cons: weak ending, needs an editor
It's not every book that starts out with a really funny suicide story, but then again, this isn't just every book. Zadie Smith published White Teeth, her first novel, when she was 24. The novel is a kaleidoscopic look at late Twentieth Century London,...
Pros: amusing, interesting, smart Cons: sometimes cynical "love...is a four letter word that sells life insurance..."
Circumnavigating the happenings of three families, from long-dead ancestors to rule-breaking youths, Zadie Smith presents the bleak and blessed realities of living in England at any age and in any Age, while the multi-cultural world takes...
Pros: The breadth of this novel is impressive. Cons: Will Americans and non-British understand?
Zadie Smith is about the most famous 24-year-old in London right now. Her pretty, tawny face glares out from bookshops, newspapers, literary magazines and general consumer publications. I have to admit that I read her epic novel out of curiosity, both...
Zadie Smith's debut novel, "White Teeth" is compelling as it weaves its tale of racial diversity through the lives of its characters, who are as diverse as any melting pot imaginable in London. Two old friends, as different as day and night,...
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wago...More at Barnes & Noble.com
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