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 Outstanding
i not just read this book and enjoyed it thoroughly but have loaned it out to a few of my friends. they also gave it an outstanding review. this author has a wonderful way of developing his characters and putting the story together.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll call out for more!
Jonathan Tropper is a writer of exquisite and seemingly effortless prose - analyses of the human psyche that perfectly balance humor and poignancy in a narrative style that captures the voice of the modern man.
This is the first book of his that I read - casually grabbed off the stand at an airport book shop with no expectations that it would even prove readable. I ended up reveling in the book, savoring his craft of blending the sublime with the absurd. It prompted me to purchase all his previous books in fell swoop, even as I expected to be disappointed by another "one hit wonder" of an author. Surprise, surprise - each novel is consistently outstanding and I relish my journey through them. Yet "How to Talk to a Widower" remains his finest effort. Tropper is a writer who continues to improve and hone his craft, and I will follow his progress with anticipation.
very good
Jonathan Tropper has become one of my fav writters. I love his style and I think this is one of my the better of his books. I've passed this book on to 3 of my friends who also enjoyed reading it very much and have now stared reading his other books.
Unexpectedly a keeper
I bought this book at a discount store, on a whim in need of a quick read. I was apprehensive but like i said it was inexpensive. I LOVE this book. It was so touching and real and just moving. It is a keeper, and there a few books i hold onto. I will definitly read it again and again. Definitly looking forward to his other books. I hope they can compare!
 Everything is beautiful
Jonathan Tropper's "How to Talk to a Widower" is better than the awful "Plan B," but that isn't saying much. In fact, I thought most of the book merited 3 stars, until I hit the dreadful ending (the part having to do with a gun and the wedding that follows) which sent the book into a nosedive (down one star).
Can you say "Deus Ex Machina?" The way Tropper creates plot is utterly cliched, contrived and predictable. One of many examples: the protaganist, Doug, goes to an empty movie theatre during a weekday. There's one other person there, and, wouldn't you know it, it's his new love interest, Brooke!!! (How she can simply leave her job as a guidance counselor in the middle of the day is beyond me). Or, Doug is pretty badly hurt and in the hospital. But don't worry, he manages to slip out of the hospital and attend his sister's wedding, all so the author can conjure up one or two extra dramatic scenes. All the characters "grow" in their own special way. Even Doug's father, who sustained a severe stroke which caused significant brain damage, is Dr. Johnny on the spot when he needs to be. How touching! How dramatic! How contrived.
And Doug is surrounded by beautiful women. Not just "beautiful" -- I mean Cindy Crawford in her 20's beautiful. I mean Halle Berry coming out of the ocean in that James Bond movie beautiful. Whether it be his sisters Clair and Debby, his mother (ok, in the past), his voluptuous firey red-headed married lover, his dead wife, his new love interest, or even a girl he's sitting next to in a high school waiting for his new love interest -- all beautiful . . . BEAUTIFUL.
To be honest, I didn't think the story was bad, and the book, to a certain degree, kept my interest; but, in my opinion, Tropper has some incredibly annoying ways of driving the plot, and describing women, which just drove me crazy. And don't go by the cover of the book -- most of it is about a young man grieving over his wife who was killed in a plane accident.
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