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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It was enjoyable to read. I just don’t know how I feel about any of the characters they all kind of suck as people.
If you like stories all about messed up people making poor choices, you'll like this one. It's kinda of like a car crash. You shouldn't be interested, but you can't look away.
Follows an honest, unlikeable and imperfect main character and her stream of never-dull consciousness. As if we are in her head, the story is a female narrative told from the perspective of a professor in her late 50s, which I believe is a perspective often overlooked and undervalued. Pretty dark, sometimes sad. Sometimes made me chuckle and relate.
If you’re a fan of The Idiot, Everyone in This Room Someday Be Dead, Nothing To See Here (that kind of vibe), you’ll enjoy this. The style feels very literary fiction and is not for everyone.
If you’re a fan of The Idiot, Everyone in This Room Someday Be Dead, Nothing To See Here (that kind of vibe), you’ll enjoy this. The style feels very literary fiction and is not for everyone.
had loved the book right up until the last few pages, which felt completely rushed relative to the rest of the novel (which truly was magnificent). not recommended for people who dislike unlikeable narrators. an interesting exploration of power, ageing and academic institutions!
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Actually, It’s 1.5 stars but I can’t bring myself to round it up to two. This book, named Vladimir, is max 20% about Vladimir. The rest of the book is a collection of a pretentious annoying supposedly intellectual woman’s opinions about everything ranging from how women should feel about their body or respond to trauma to what food goes well what food and how you should raise your kids. AND most of them (not all, some parts were really good) are either really problematic or just stupid. This was one of those books where the female lead does and believes in the wrongs we usually associate with men like cheating and being rightful about it and abandoning your kid to follow your own passion and not giving a fuck and then she feels so modern and cool about it and thinks (this is about abandoning one ) she is “modeling a kind of female independence and pursuit of happiness I believed would serve her (narrators daughter) in the future.” It would not. The narrator’s insecurity about her age and her body or her literal achievements was really well written to be fair. Vladimir-related parts were ok, wished they were more detailed and extended over more of the book like how the book’s name and cover suggested.
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
