God-Shaped Hole
Written by Tiffanie DeBartolo
Narrated by Rachael Warren
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Tiffanie DeBartolo
Tiffanie DeBartolo is an American novelist, filmmaker, and the co-founder of the independent record label Bright Antenna. She wrote and directed the Columbia Tristar release Dream for an Insomniac (1996), which featured Jennifer Aniston. Her other novels include How to Kill a Rock Star and The Shape of My Heart. She lives with her husband in Boulder, Colorado.
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Reviews for God-Shaped Hole
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/55/5 stars
I'm going to be honest with you... When I picked up this book, I had no idea what to expect. I thought is was your everyday romantic comedy, but what I got was something extraordinary. The characters were unique and the storyline was witty, romantic, heartbreaking, and inspirational.
It is a story about Beatrice, a woman in her late twenties, looking for something more from life. When a personal ad in the newspaper catches her eye she thinks what the hell and dials the number listed. She never expected the guy to be her soul mate. When they meet in person there is a quirky kind of love at first sight. Both have outrageous personalities with crazy interpretations of life.
The romance is fast paced and they quickly move in with one another. Things are great. Their sexual connection is fierce and their mental connection is on point. Something changes though... Jacob sees his father after many years of absence and is thrown off by what he comes face to face with. His whole outlook changes and he turns into a bitter person that leaves Trixie to wonder where he goes when he leaves and doesn't return for weeks. Their romance is still there, but Trixie is forced to move forward and let Jacob face his problems on his own.
*SPOILER*
The ending, GAH, the ending.... It was gut wrenching! Everything was just starting to get better and them BAM. All of sudden, Trixie's nightmares become reality. My heart ached, but I felt inspired. It showed us that we must make each day in our life memorable. That no matter what we always should chase what we believe in. To never let absent relationships eat us alive and to always put the present first and foremost.
I HIGHLY recommend this one to all readers that like a funny, emotional, inspirational story with some sexiness! - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Apparently this is a reprint from a book published in 2002. I did not read it then. This is the first book that I have read by this author.From the reviews that I read, I was supposed to be mesmerized. It was supposed to be the love story to end all love stories. Well, that's not what happened to me.I thought it was a decent read and a nice love story. I remember thinking that after I read it and was at a loss as to how to review this book. All these raving reviews, and I thought it was okay. To be honest, I finished this book 12 days ago and I remember parts of it, like the Craigslist ad, but that's about it. I've written reviews today for books I've read as far back as 17 days ago and I remembered all of them except this one.Thanks Sourcebooks and Net Galley for approving and allowing me to read and review this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've heard many horrible things about this book, but I still stand by it because I believe that books resonate with and mean different things for each person, depending on where they are with their lives. I read an un-edited version of this book in 2004 and loved it to death. It fit me at the time and, because of that, I will never stop loving this book. It was what I needed at a very difficult time in my life.
It's definitely not for everyone. And, upon a second read, I don't know if it would be for me. But it would definitely take me back to a place and time. And for that, I love this book. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best books I've ever had the pleasure to read. And read again. And read again. And again.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I cried like a baby when I read this book.. It moved me so much I can't read it again because just thinking about it is enough.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To truly appreciate this book, I think you need to be living it. This story touched me so profoundly that I am in awe. I won't read it again. I can't read it again. However it is forever ingrained in my mind as a classic love story. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best books that I've ever read
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Through the first quarter of the book I was in love with every aspect of this book. I completely identified with the main character Beatrice, and even though Jacob seemed WAY too good to be true, I still loved their relationship and didn't think the whole thing too sweet. It seemed to work. Where I started having a hard time with the book is when Beatrice first gets mad at Jacob for meeting up with a new girlfriend. It seemed WAY overboard. After that the characters started to annoy me. Then Jacob's weird moodiness...I know book characters aren't supposed to be perfect, but something seemed off to me as a reader. I guess I couldn't fully understand the characters and I didnt find the writing to be in such a way where the reader shouldn't understand...I just felt a disconnect. I think because I fell so in love with the chracters in the beginning then quickly found them annoying I couldn't completely fall in love with this book. I also didnt find the ending as sad as it probably should have been for me. I do give the author credit for excellent writing and story telling. As far as writing I was pleased with this book. Something just happened in the middle to throw me off from completely loving it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book!Loved Tiffanie's writing, her character development, the back story, the dialogue between the characters. Read like a screenplay and totally believable.Artsy Beatrice is told when she is 12 yrs old by a psychic that her true love will die young.She meets writer Jacob through the personals, they click, and have a wonderful relationship, and then.....Can't wait to read more by Tiffanie, this book really stayed with me!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best books I've ever had the pleasure to read. And read again. And read again. And again.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Beatrice (Trixie) Jordan answers a personal ad in the paper - “If your intentions are pure I’m seeking a friend for the end of the world.” – she doesn’t know that her whole world is about to change. In Jacob Grace, she finds what she didn’t know what she was looking for: a friend, an ally, a lover. These two creative souls – Trixie makes jewelry, Jacob is a writer – join together so they don’t have to face their demons alone.I really liked this book, a lot more than I would have thought. It’s not something I normally read – I usually (not always) don’t read books categorized as “romance” or “chick lit” – and honestly, I chose it because I’m a sucker for a beautiful (especially colorful) cover. But this book was different. On the surface, it was a love story between Trixie and Jacob: how they met, fell in love, and helped each other through tough times.But underneath, it was so much more.God-Shaped Hole is about the journey we each take to fill that “god-shaped hole” (which doesn’t necessarily need to be filled by God) to make our lives feel complete. "We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hold in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself."This book was both laugh-out-loud funny and serious, often in the same breath. The characters were well-developed and complex. I loved both Trixie and Jacob – their insecurities, their idiosyncrasies, their personalities. I enjoyed watching the progression of their relationship, from the honeymoon phase to the deep, long-lasting love phase. I actually also liked Trixie’s mother, who had always seemed uptight to Trixie, but really had so much more depth than her daughter ever realized.The writing itself was beautiful – both subtle and powerful. There were so many great quotes, both beautiful imagery and questions to provoke deep thought. This book would be a great pick for a book club because there are so many layers there to dissect. It’s beautiful, poignant, joyous, uproarious, deep, all mixed into one. It really was a great book.Thank you to NetGalley and to SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for a copy of this eBook in exchange for an honest review!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Living and working in fast-paced LA, Beatrice Jordan is a jewelry designer. Tired of being alone, she responds to a personal ad. On a whim, writer Jacob Grace had posted, “If your intentions are pure, I am seeking a friend for the end of the world”. She could not resist an ad like that.Perhaps by fate, these two develop a real relationship. They even help each other come to terms with unresolved feelings from their difficult childhoods. That is quite a feat in itself. But, they also awaken new feelings in each other, some that are even harder to tame.This is a love story for the lonely, quirky, creative people in the world. It speaks to those who are looking for something, someone, to hold in the middle of their hurricane. They seek someone that is like them, and they believe, deep down, they are out there.Fifteen years ago, this book was published by Sourcebooks. With a cult-like following, God-Shaped Hole has survived to become a classic in its own right. Come and read the bittersweet novel that helped define and shape a generation. Celebrate the elements of life and love, because these are the things help us become who we were meant to be.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5In contrast to Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love, which I read recently and which I thought was an excellent examination of love and relationships in both a realistic and affirming way, this meditation on a single intense relationship felt myopic and trite to me. I think people who react to it positively (and many seem to react very positively) are looking to read a contemporary romance novel in some ways. And I don't say that to disparage romance novels, but rather to explain why I did not enjoy my reading of this novel. In many ways it is a contemporary love story in the vein of, well, Love Story, told from the perspective of a female protagonist. I think the viewpoint and the emotional energy of the book make it very attractive for many female readers, so take this for what it's worth from the male perspective. In the end, I felt nothing about these characters except that I had spent too long watching them love each other. Their experience may have had great meaning for them, but that does not actually make the story meaningful.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I found this to be an interesting book, although not really riveting. Other people have written that they cried in parts, and although I am definitely the emotional type, I wasn't moved to tears by this story. It is a story about younger people in love and being definitely not in that category myself may have contributed my feeling somewhat distanced. I did feel some empathy with the main character, though, and I liked the way DeBartolo suggests that our parents can have a powerful influence on us even (or especially) when they are absent from big chunks of our lives.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved this book very much. I thought it was sweet, funny, and very sad.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of my absolute favorite books. DeBartolo writes so emotionally that it makes the characters seem so close to you. This is a story which 3 years later still has an emotional response from me.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it! Very funny cynicism, yet sad; like the style of writing.