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2.98 AVERAGE
2.98 AVERAGE
UGH!!! I hated this book so so so much. My least favorite book I've ever read. I just wanted to throw it across the room. The main character is completely unsympathetic, I just hated him through the whole book. Just everything about this book made me angry, I didn't enjoy any part of it.
If you pretend that the letters and telegrams are emails and social media posts, this book could have been written today instead of twenty five years ago. If anything it's more relevant in today's climate of instant dissemination of a single side of a story before all of the facts are truly in. Human nature and the slippery slope of misunderstanding, half-understanding, or refusing to understand are certainly alive and well.
The characters and their motivations are strongly developed and felt three dimensional. The "documentary" nature of the writing, while not as avant garde as it was back when it was first published does an excellent job and was a perfect fit. Because the narration is neither first person nor omniscient third person we see most the actions and social interactions of the characters, rather than their inner monologue, which helps us to both realize that we can, in the end, only judge people by what they do, and also to realize the ways in which people act differently with different people without necessarily meaning to do so.
The characters and their motivations are strongly developed and felt three dimensional. The "documentary" nature of the writing, while not as avant garde as it was back when it was first published does an excellent job and was a perfect fit. Because the narration is neither first person nor omniscient third person we see most the actions and social interactions of the characters, rather than their inner monologue, which helps us to both realize that we can, in the end, only judge people by what they do, and also to realize the ways in which people act differently with different people without necessarily meaning to do so.