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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
Surprisingly interesting if a little slow. Loved the meta-elements and found the main plot mostly engaging too. Post-modernism/meta-fiction done well.
I learned this book is just not keeping my interest. :(
Great writing style, and reflexions raised about characters, writers, and comparisons between different times, but, because of that, the story seemed to be just a pretext to show the theories in practice. It was a long read, sometimes tiresome, and I didn't really feel pleasure reading it.
- The only parts I didn't care for were when Fowles interrupted and talked about the book as the author. I don't have a problem with this technique in general but it took me out of the narrative that I was so absorbed in otherwise.
This book...oh my god. This book is so clever; so many twists and turns shrouded in uncertainty. I found myself smiling, screaming and nearly crying all through this book. A brilliant read and I recommend it to anyone looking for a challenge :)
This is a book that constantly defies the reader's expectations, and in a completely organic way. It's so difficult to make new kinds of postmodern narrative techniques work, and this novel is a testament to what a writer can do with such tools at their disposal.
3,5*
I had to read this one for my Contemporary English Culture class, and it actually surprised me. My only problem with it was the writing style, that bored me a bit, and made finishing this book a complicated task at times. Asides that, I really enjoyed it. I was very invested in the story and I wanted to know more about the characters. Sarah was a real mystery!
I had to read this one for my Contemporary English Culture class, and it actually surprised me. My only problem with it was the writing style, that bored me a bit, and made finishing this book a complicated task at times. Asides that, I really enjoyed it. I was very invested in the story and I wanted to know more about the characters. Sarah was a real mystery!
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Weirdly entertaining but just overall a poorly written mess. I'm glad people don't consider this a feminist novel anymore, because oh well.
Fowles's novels have this 15-years-old-teen vibe of "You don't understand me and my genius !!" ("It's a metaphor, Hazel Grace"?) and they always manage to show you the worst misogynists in acute detail while selling off the novel as intentionally misogynist. Sure, Jan.
My third novel by Fowles read and despised. This guy is just overrated (to put it nicely).
Fowles's novels have this 15-years-old-teen vibe of "You don't understand me and my genius !!" ("It's a metaphor, Hazel Grace"?) and they always manage to show you the worst misogynists in acute detail while selling off the novel as intentionally misogynist. Sure, Jan.
My third novel by Fowles read and despised. This guy is just overrated (to put it nicely).