Hotels of North America: A novel
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By Rick Moody
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Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, RateYourLodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels and, horrors, bed and breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer, but the people who offer it. Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people.
At first Morse seems exactly what you’d suspect a reviewer to be, though under the authoritative, even puffed-up tone, there lurks self-awareness, wit and a flair for anecdote. His reviews scatter clues to his identity, and the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse, his career as a motivational speaker, his lover ‘K’ and his estrangement from his daughter. Always funny, unexpectedly tragic, this is a book of lonely rooms, long lists, of strong opinion and quiet confession, by one of America’s greatest novelists.
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We liked some of this book. Found it confusing in parts.
Difficult to follow the timeline
On the whole the group enjoyed reading this book. It was funny in parts and quite sad and poignant in others. It told the life of the supposed author of posts on a the hotel ratings and reviews web site, but in a non linear manner .
We read this book as part of the 30th birthday celebrations of the publisher Serpents Tail
