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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Consuming, captivating .. you feel like you’re drowning with Olga.. remind yourself to come up for air.
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
One line review: 'Write hard and clear about what hurts.' - Ernest Hemingway
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Well, I'm trying to read more contemporary fiction from other places, though perhaps this shouldn't have been one of my inaugural attempts.
This is a novel which reads uncomfortably like the author's diary, even if you are well-trained in the idea of the death of the author. Essentially a first-person account of mental disintegration in the wake of a relationship's dissolution, this book only very barely summons sympathy for its narrator. Mostly, as a reader, I cringed, again and again.
This is a novel which reads uncomfortably like the author's diary, even if you are well-trained in the idea of the death of the author. Essentially a first-person account of mental disintegration in the wake of a relationship's dissolution, this book only very barely summons sympathy for its narrator. Mostly, as a reader, I cringed, again and again.
'I thought with gratitude that in those months, discreetly, he had worked to sew up around me a world that could be trusted. He had now arrived at his kindest act. He wanted me to understand that I no longer had to be frightened, that every movement could be narrated with all its reasons good and bad, that, in short, it was time to return to the solidity of the links that bind atogether spaces and times. With that gift he was trying to exonerate himself, he was exonerating me, he was attributing thedeath of Otto to the chance of the games of a dog at night.'
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced