I couldn't tell if I disliked their performances (please don't do accents if you really can't do them) or if I just disliked the book. What aspect of Dan Bittner and Khristine Hvam ’s performance would you have changed? This would have been a great chapter of a much longer book - there are about 30 pages of a story here. What could Grant Ginder have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you? I finished it because I kept waiting for something, well, fabulous to happen. I had hoped for the kind of wit I found in Julian Fellowes book "Snobs". I kept going because I wanted to like it so much. Not only is the family really unpleasant, none of them are particularly well-drawn. By the end, the book seems to want us to feel sympathy for this family and it's pretty impossible.
It would be one thing if the book were sharp and satirical but it isn't. This is a nasty, snarky group of people without any clear redeeming qualities. I had read others' reviews about how unlikable all of these characters are but didn't think it would bother me. There's so much potential here - we've all been to really fraught and wretched family weddings (or I assume we all have.). Sadly, the title is still my favorite part. I wanted to like this so much - the title is great. What would have made The People We Hate at the Wedding better? To top it off, she's infuriatingly kind and decent.Īs this estranged clan gathers together and Eloise's walk down the aisle approaches, Grant Ginder brings to vivid, hilarious life the power of family and the complicated ways we hate the ones we love the most in the most bitingly funny, slyly witty, and surprisingly tender audiobook you'll listen to this year. John, and a postcollege life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund. The product of Donna's first marriage to a dashing Frenchman, Eloise has spent her school years at the best private boarding schools, her winter holidays in St. Her brother, Paul, lives in Philadelphia with his older, handsomer, tenured track professor boyfriend who's recently been saying things like "monogamy is an oppressive heteronormative construct" while eyeing undergrads. Alice is in her 30s, single, smart, beautiful, and stuck in a dead-end job where she is mired in a rather predictable, though enjoyable, affair with her married boss. Donna, the clan's mother, is now a widow living in the Chicago suburbs with a penchant for the occasional joint and more than one glass of wine with her best friend while watching House Hunters International. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Paul and Alice's half sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants, and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins.
They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. This program includes a bonus interview with the author and his editor.
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