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adventurous
challenging
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
While reading this, I kept comparing it to Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. They share a structure in which a central narrative loosely contextualizes the short stories embedded in the novel. Both are about the writing process itself. While Mr. Fox is far less unpleasant to read, Haunted works the structure better.
Mr. Fox ultimately left me unsure of the point of it all on a larger level. Things just never quite come together. All the parts--the stories, the characters, the prose--were nejoyable enough, but they never quite gelled as promised.
Two stories in particular step out of the narrative--one about a young girl in an occupied country (which you might argue represents Daphne and Mary) but breaks the form of the stories up to that point and the one about the young woman and the psychiatrist since it obviously takes place in the modern day, abandoning the 1930s setting that informs initial impressions of the novel.
Overall, enjoyable but dissatisfying.
Mr. Fox ultimately left me unsure of the point of it all on a larger level. Things just never quite come together. All the parts--the stories, the characters, the prose--were nejoyable enough, but they never quite gelled as promised.
Two stories in particular step out of the narrative--one about a young girl in an occupied country (which you might argue represents Daphne and Mary) but breaks the form of the stories up to that point and the one about the young woman and the psychiatrist since it obviously takes place in the modern day, abandoning the 1930s setting that informs initial impressions of the novel.
Overall, enjoyable but dissatisfying.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity