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The Diviners

de Rick Moody

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. Among the wannabes: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of Means of Production, an indie film company; her harried and varied staff; a Sikh cab driver, promoted to the office of -theory and practice of TV; a bipolar bicycle messenger, who makes a fateful mis-delivery; two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer who gives Botox parties; the daughter of an L.A. big-shot, who is hired to fetch Vanessa+s Krispy Kremes and more; a word man who coined the phrase--inspired by a true story; and a supreme court justice who wants to write the script.A few true artists surface in the course of Moody's rollicking but intricately woven novel, and real emotion eventually blossoms for most of Vanessa's staff at Means of Production, even herself. THE DIVINERS is a cautionary tale about pointless ambition; a richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of money, politics, addiction, sex, work, and family in modern America; and a masterpiece of comedy that will bring Rick Moody to a still higher level of appreciation..… (mais)
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I read Garden State a few years ago. To me, it wasn't better or worse than the movie, just different. Or to be more accurate, it was on a tightrope. I wasn't sure what to make of Moody's writing. I thought maybe I liked it, but I might have really disliked it. I knew I had to give him another shot. I did. I'm not going for a third attempt though.

What I wasn't sure about reading Garden State is if Moody intentionally tries to tick the reader off. After reading The Diviners, I think I have the answer. I think it's, "Yes. Yes he does."

The opening of the book....the word light was repeated over and over at least once a sentence for pages. If it were a drinking game, whole frat houses would be strewn over furniture passed out around the room. Reading the opening became a test of my will. By page two, each time I read the word "light" I flinched - I think I actually physically flinched before the end. Fortunately, I wouldn't be forced to face that horror for 500 additional pages...that's not to say it ended well.

The rest of the book, with a rotating cast of characters, was entertaining enough, smart, well-written, even if it seemed like Moody wasn't invested in the characters as much as he should have been - maybe because he was juggling about a dozen. But still, bearable, good enough that I started to forget the travesty of the opening....until "special friend" and "distinguished jurist" were both used in the epilogue enough to knockout the frat house's matching sorority.

Why does Moody hate his readers? Some questions are probably best left unanswered.

Without the intro and epilogue (which didn't even fit with the rest of the novel anyway) I would have given this a 3 or 3.5. With those, I give it a 2.5 ( )
  Sean191 | Mar 2, 2018 |
Haven't finished this one. Unique beginning to the book -- the reader is taken on a flight over the entire earth before the plot begins.
  humanart | Aug 27, 2007 |
Absolutely awful, I didn't realise just how awful it was until i was already 250 pages in and STILL no plot had developed, by which point I felt that I had to at least finish it so I could write a fair review of it. On the positive side there are some moments of beautiful writing, the last sentance is wonderful. However those few paragraphs are spread throughout 570 pages of complete drivel. The characters are flat the plot strands are filament thin and dull and to add insult to injury none of them are actually given the respect of being finished. For the most part the prose is whittering drivel that drones on and on inducing nothing but sleep and daydreams. Don't touch this book with a barge pole. ( )
1 vote sulkyblue | Apr 25, 2007 |
I love the writing style in this book. It is wildly imaginative and has interesting, quirky characters. In the end, though, feels more like a fun exercise than great literature. ( )
  keferunk | Sep 28, 2006 |
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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. Among the wannabes: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of Means of Production, an indie film company; her harried and varied staff; a Sikh cab driver, promoted to the office of -theory and practice of TV; a bipolar bicycle messenger, who makes a fateful mis-delivery; two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer who gives Botox parties; the daughter of an L.A. big-shot, who is hired to fetch Vanessa+s Krispy Kremes and more; a word man who coined the phrase--inspired by a true story; and a supreme court justice who wants to write the script.A few true artists surface in the course of Moody's rollicking but intricately woven novel, and real emotion eventually blossoms for most of Vanessa's staff at Means of Production, even herself. THE DIVINERS is a cautionary tale about pointless ambition; a richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of money, politics, addiction, sex, work, and family in modern America; and a masterpiece of comedy that will bring Rick Moody to a still higher level of appreciation..

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