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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
This is food is so fucking good Lois!
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"How had I fetched up into this strange new life, where drunk foreigners shouted around me in the night, and all my clothes were dirty, and nobody loved me?"
crazy to some (me)
crazy to some (me)
I really enjoyed the writing and story. I enjoyed how I could understand how Theo was feeling. I also enjoyed how deep the characters were.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Im not sure how I feel about this book. 700 plus pages and what I can say is Donna Tartt is skilled at writing and 3/4 of the book kept me interested but some of the characters were completely bizarre, and the ending…idk if it was worth the time it took to read it. A strange story you feel compelled to finish but also….what just happened.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
This book begins interestingly enough but then degenerates as far as I am concerned. Why she won the Pulitzer is not for me to know! It is long over-written and under edited. How anyone can think that the maze of this persons' life deserves attention or has intensity . . ? maybe you have to live on the EastCoast and think these things are important! Read the first chapter the last section of the book and that is all the time you need to spend on it. And only read more if you find the boy's life compelling.
I read far more than I needed to but I believed it read a little like the plot from the movie "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" in the beginning that was the feel to me. A kid dealing with tremendous loss but once we get to Las Vegas everything goes out the window.
The end of the book has the audacity to suggest that this was a diary?! Really well there was no indication of this before the writer's statement. Yes it is about a life but that is not a diary. Plus the philosophy at the end either needs to be rewritten or come out of character's voice rather than this sudden shift to 1st person.
I read far more than I needed to but I believed it read a little like the plot from the movie "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" in the beginning that was the feel to me. A kid dealing with tremendous loss but once we get to Las Vegas everything goes out the window.
The end of the book has the audacity to suggest that this was a diary?! Really well there was no indication of this before the writer's statement. Yes it is about a life but that is not a diary. Plus the philosophy at the end either needs to be rewritten or come out of character's voice rather than this sudden shift to 1st person.
for the prose, but it didn't draw me in immediately, i didnt attach to the characters until a good chunk in, the plot did hook me eventually. very flat poc characters is my biggest critique. sometimes i felt the mc was too passive for me to root for him but he is a repressed homosexual gay boy so