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Book ReviewsGutted : Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Entire Life |
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Book: Gutted : Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Entire Life
Written by: Lawrence LaRose |
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5
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close ,but no cigar
Rating:
3 / 5
Multiply by 10, no 20 times what LL describes in "Gutted," then you can you may begin to comprehend the true meaning of "gutted."
A must read for anyone considering buying a fixer-upper. My advice, buy a house already gutted, renovated, and move in ready.
Rings true
Rating:
5 / 5
My wife and I were in the process of renovating the 100 year-old fixer-upper that we'd recently purchased. I was looking for a how-to book at my local Border's bookstore and I found this novel shelved with the home-improvement books. I'm not sure if it was a mistake or if there's a marketing genius working at the store, but I snatched this book up instantly.
It was rather surreal to read about LaRose's home-improvement misadventures while sitting in my freshly gutted kitchen, covered in dust, my feet dangling between the rafters where a floor had been hours before. I felt, first-hand, the marital stress he and his wife went through. And his observations on Home Depot, contractors, tools, home-improvement shows, lumber yards, and relatives are uncanny.
This is a wonderful story about a couple who demolish their house, and nearly their relationship, to make everything better and brighter.
An Easy, Helpful Read
Rating:
4 / 5
Refreshingly conversational and informal, this is the kind of book you can go through in 3 days, the pages turn so quickly. LaRose does a good job of bringing you inside the house, well the shell of it anyway, and seeing both his and his wife's predictable reactions to one frustration after another. The book itself is a great idea; everyone knows someone with these types of horror stories, but this serves a purpose as a warning sign of some of the problems that WILL (not "could", not "might") be involved in home renovation. I highly recommend it for anyone who's thinking of doing anything major to their home and hope to keep to some sort of budget.
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