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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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meirysza's review against another edition

3.0

Sad book for sad people in a match.

I can’t fathom enough my first read on Kafka’s onto thinking “Oh, this book is going to be pretentious”. Turns out, it is not. It is sincerely put together really fit to the fact of the uncanny transformation of Gregor Samsa overlooked all things he had done prior, as if what he worked for in a great spent for the family only to made their demeanors to Gregor switch (or maybe those are REAL sh*tty characters? lol). What is the point of hoping your family to treat you as normal being regardless your odd figure? They didn’t care because you couldn’t whoop your a** to work and became so much far from yourself into workaholic but not enough to beat the sh*t out of careless father, a degenerate head of the family who couldn’t afford the family except to rot on that armchair. (This book is related to Kafka’s daddy issues, I think)

ilikemandos's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

jjones2208's review against another edition

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dark

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

ibrice101's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

monsterheaven's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

i had high expectations for this book but nonetheless it had brilliant writing , themes , metaphors & symbols i enjoyed reading it. it just didn’t hook me as much as i thought it would which was a shame but it’s still a really good book.