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Original Title:	Ordinary People
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Lake Forest, Illinois(United States)
Literary Awards:	Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (1976)

Ordinary People

Judith Guest

Paperback | Pages: 263 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 18032 Users | 975 Reviews

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Title	:	Ordinary People
Author	:	Judith Guest
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 263 pages
Published	:	October 28th 1982 by Penguin Books (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Contemporary. Psychology. Young Adult

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Once, when my middle child was 7 or 8 years old, I was listening to the usual rhythm of her saying her evening prayer, when she surprised me by adding, “And Lord, please remember, when I die, I want to come back as a horse. Amen.” I laughed out loud at her prayer, but then I immediately realized my mistake, when I saw her face. She wasn't joking. I switched gears quickly, got serious, and said, “Honey. I don't get it. Why are you asking God to bring you back as a horse?” She answered very matter-of-factly, “Being a person is too hard. I don't want to come back as one, next time. Horses know exactly what to do and they have more fun.” Well, how can anyone argue with THAT? She's right. A horse eats, it drinks, it sleeps, it plays, it procreates, it eliminates, it dies. The horse's trajectory is ruled by nature. It does what a horse does. The end. But, humans. Sigh. Humans. Humans have strayed so far from the caves, our code for being human has become lost to us. Gone are the days of “Ugga, Ugga, Ugga” and all of our problems were solved. Gone are the days of the finger point to the vagina, the penis, the fire, the meat, the water, the baby, the sky, the ground. Our fingers used to do the talking, and I bet we were a HELL of a lot happier, too. (I've pointed my finger at Viggo Mortensen's penis in an earlier review, and nothing happened. It's like all the magic's gone.) But, I digress. Now, depending on culture, religion, geography, and social and economic status, the code can be completely different for each person, and chances are, the human code for YOU is close to impossible anyway, and you feel as though you're failing every day. Nobody's role is simple, these days. Not even a kid's. It used to mean minding your manners, respecting those who were bigger than you, treating each day as a surprise package, waiting to be opened. . . this is the age of perfection, kid. Everybody try their emotional and physical damndest. Strive, strive. Correct all defects. Correct all defects. Don't show weakness. The code for humans is so complicated now, it seems based on a pursuit of perfection we sought for ourselves, but had no realistic basis. We have holy texts that guide us to be good, but none that I'm aware of that ask us to be God. But we ain't Divine, people. And most of us are doing a lousy job of being perfect, but an excellent job of being miserable. And no make-up or yoga pants or juice cleanse or private college or grad school or Paleo diet or test scores or attractive spouse or clever children or 2-car garage or 4,000 square foot home or Mercedes Benz or colored hair or bank account or successful career or skinny ass or perpetual smile is ever going to make us PERFECT. Because we're ORDINARY, people. And as far as I'm concerned. . . the sooner we head back to the caves, the better. I'm headed to mine right now. (I'm trading in my overpriced yoga pants for leopard skins, and Viggo M's ass better be waiting for me). My daughter says she'll carry me on her back.

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Was looking up the 2019 Women's Prize Longlist titles and was down to Diana Evans's Ordinary People ---- and remembered that I am so damned old I read the one by Judith Guest in 1976.

A deeply moving, thoughtful book, Ordinary People takes a brutally close look at the dynamics of a family coping with the loss of a child. Conrad, the surviving child, struggles with his own guilt and pain by attempting suicide and has just been released from a mental hospital. Calvin, the father, feels as if he has let down both his sons and suddenly feels uncertain, reeling from the fact that he could not protect his own family. Finally, there is Beth, the mother, who comes across as cold and

This book was first recommended to me by my high school English teacher. I had just read Lord of the Flies, and she could tell I needed something to restore my faith in humanity. This book is incredible!It is a real, unflinchingly honest look at life and all of the horrible things that happen. It is also a reminder of the reasons that life is still worth living in spite of those horrible things.

For the first couple chapters of this book, I was rather confused and repelled by Guest's writing style. The EXTREME stream of consciousness is rather intrusive to first-time readers. Conrad and Calvin's struggles, though revealed at painstakingly slow rates, made me have to read more and more and more. When the true conflict is actually revealed, there was a new appreciation for the writing style. All I wanted was to get MORE into the characters' heads! By the end of the book, I not only felt

I read this book for my summer reading and although it was enjoyable, it just took me SO long to read it. Once I put it down, it took a lot out of me to pick it up and read more. That's not really saying it was bad... because it wasn't. Once I did pick it up and was reading it, I enjoyed it and it went a whole lot quicker. However, thinking back on it, there's really no plot. It's mainly just character growth and development. It didn't have too much going on yet it was still 260 pages. I feel as

Last night, I watched the movie based on Ordinary People and it's one of those situations where it's leaps and bounds above its source material. It highlights all the good parts, while cutting out the bits and that are contrived and silly. Redford deserved his Oscar for best director for pulling a great movie out of an alright book. Was nobody else bothered by the parents in this book? Cal is perfect, the great orphan who pulled himself up from the muck to achieve greatness. He still has depth,

(2.5) Though well written, the relentess time spent in Conrad and his Dad's heads wore on me after about half the book. Plus, the mom is a major character and is given short-shrift. It would've been more balanced had we heard from her too. This is a good book to read to get an idea about mental illness and its effects on families, though.