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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book is wet.
It is also excellent.
A delight of language.
It is also excellent.
A delight of language.
I don't even really know what I just read. Nor can i be bothered to figure out the hidden messages within it. There was no plot. The book jumps from one weird experience to the next. Definitely not for me, I struggled to finish it, and honestly, if I hadn't bought the book myself, i dont think i would have.
The author writes some fantastic descriptions in this novel and I loved the way everything in the book was pervaded by water - the paintings, the creeping mould, the tides, the descriptions of the people; the way Harrison does this is really masterful. While the psychogeography was interesting, I found the lack of story a problem as my attention waned a lot during reading.
somehow both the weirdest and most boring book i’ve ever read
Maybe there's something that ties this all together. Maybe if I read it through in a single sitting, then read The Waterbabies and whatever else it references, spent a bunch of time on internet conspiracy sites, went back in time and lived in England from 2016 through `19, and then came back and read it again in one shot, maybe then this would seem like a coherent narrative. Maybe. Otherwise, you're just watching a couple of people randomly moping through middle age amidst incoherent weirdness that keeps hinting at some profound cosmic mystery but never resolves into anything.
What a strange and extraordinary book. Unlike anything I’ve ever read. Don’t even know how to begin describing it; the only word that comes to mind is “haunting.”
slow-paced
This book follows the two most dull/irritating characters around as they don’t do a whole lot and don’t learn a whole lot. This book shows too little to be interesting. It is definitely saying something in the background. I wish I got to see more of it or that the foreground characters were interesting enough that it doesn’t matter. The writing seems heavily influenced by Lovecraft in both subject matter and style. However in imitating Lovecraft’s heavily descriptive style they have lost the drive that would be necessary to make a story like this work. The heavily descriptive style of Lovecraft works because he’s actually describing something, he’s showing you this world. The descriptions here don’t show much of anything. A bland picture of dreary landscapes and architecture, written in the style of a technical manual. I came out of it feeling like I had missed something critical to understanding the point of it all, like I had missed some inside joke or message or hint that would’ve made it made sense.
Non vedo il punto di questo libro, sembra che l'autore stesse cercando di intrecciare una serie di storie oniriche e poi, quando questa serie fitta di sottotrame è uscita dal suo controllo, abbia deciso di mollare tutto nel modo più facile: allontanare i personaggi senza spiegare nulla. Forse c'è qualche simbolismo che non ho colto, probabilmente il finale si addice al non-sense che pervade il libro, ma non mi è piaciuto. Perché sollevare numerose domande sui personaggi, principali e secondari, per poi non rispondere niente? Il finale di Victoria non è male, ma quello di Shaw è semplicemente inutile e pigro. Avrei dovuto abbandonare il libro quando iniziava a farsi noioso, invece di perseverare per niente. Peccato.