The Underpainter was not the best book to take on a quick trip to California. It’s not the best book to read in an airport, on an airplane or in a Holiday Inn Express with very loud music and even louder male voices blaring from the rooms next door. The Underpainter is a book you want to read while lounging under a tree or in a really plush and comfortable lounge chair. It’s also a book that needs a lot of highlight markings or at least the previous owner of my copy seemed to think so. That’s the problem with buying used books, sometimes I get distracted by the words and phrases previous owners felt it necessary to highlight.
Anyway – beautifully written. I hated Austin, which is probably as it should be. I felt sorry for him too, which is also as it should be.
One more book for my From the Stacks Challenge and I’ll be done! Yay me. Yay me.
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