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An excruciating comic masterpiece. -- Sunday Times

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Meet Lisa, Guy, Keri, Graham, Helen, and Josh. With a tangle of secret lusts hovering amongst them, it only takes one betrayal to trigger a sudden collapse of social and sexual decorum. As these young Londoners fall in and out of bed with one another in a series of sexual adventures, misadventures, accidents, triumphs, and failures, casual indiscretions begin to have irreversible consequences. By turns funny and sad, embarrassing and moving, The Love Hexagon asks how deep loyalties within a group of friends run when eyes and hearts begin to stray.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Predictable, unoriginal, unbelievable, Oct 16 2001

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Stephanie (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Love Hexagon (Paperback)

I picked up "Love Hexagon" after reading and enjoying "Are you Experienced" by William Sutcliffe. In one sentence, if I had not read any of Sutcliffe's other works, I would have put this book down after 15 pages. I felt no emotion for the characters and generally found this book to be unoriginal, extremly predictable, and unbelievable Let me explain.

1. This book is unoriginal because it focuses on 6 twentysomething friends who live and work in London. (Seems to be a popular theme these days).
2. The story line is beyond predictable. After the first couple of chapters any capable reader can guess who will end up with whom.
3. Finally this book is unbelievable. All six characters have the ability to discover exactly what they are feeling, why they are acting the way they are, what they should do and what the other person is thinking. There is no fumbling, and no guessing when it comes to figuring the situation out.

If you are going to read anything by Sutcliffe, go for "Are you Experienced" and leave "Love Hexagon" on the shelf.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, and so true, Jun 3 2001

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This review is from: The Love Hexagon (Paperback)

An entertaining dissection of the workings of the soul of 3 British (very British) couples. I particularly enjoyed how the author shows the vanity of his characters who go at extraordinary lenght not to be "found out" -- not realizing that they didn't fool anybody in the first place. It takes depth to write about ordinary people. I found myself is those characters.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sutcliffe's Weakest Effort Thus Far, Mar 23 2001

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Nikos A. Leverenz (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Love Hexagon (Paperback)

I eagerly picked up this novel, hoping to find the sense of personal discovery of "New Boy" (Sutcliffe's first novel, deserving of a long overdue release in the States), or the manic, comic glee of "Are You Experienced?" "The Love Hexagon" offers neither. What it does offer is an account of twenty-something Londoners who are cynically detached from their jobs, their aspirations, and their personal relationships. The six main characters can't really come to terms with each other, as they have yet to come to terms with themselves.

After what seems like a decade of "Friends" and far too many films starring Ethan Hawke-types as self-loathing urban romantics, the plot of this book is patently unremarkable. Still, Sutcliffe is a superior talent; his dialog moves crisply with superb cadence and aural vigor. As with his other works, Sutcliffe demonstrates why he is an international talent who deserves the acclaim he's received: he understands the anxieties of our generation and presents them in a manner void of the didactic and the bombastic. His characters speak with the requisite sophisticate irony, but with a sense of candor -which if not done well would come across as whiny earnestness.

This is an entertaining read, though ultimately unsatisfying when compared to his other works. If you have yet to read any Sutcliffe novels, start with this one and move on to the others. Whatever its shortcomings, "The Love Hexagon" has not diminished my anticipation for Sutcliffe's next book.

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