772 reviews for:

The Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat

3.75 AVERAGE


If Kafka wrote the Corpse Bride
challenging dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: No
challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

it’s not that i didn’t get it, it’s that i didn’t like it
dark
challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The unreliable narrator of all time
dark slow-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

Picture of a psychotic, very disturbed mind.  The text itself can be a bit taxing to read, so I found listening to the audiobook while reading along helped a lot.

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challenging dark reflective medium-paced

i'm deeply disturbed...
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious fast-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

The writing was beautiful. The story is quite dark and violent, but it kept a dream-like state the entire time.

It's a short story and difficult to put down because I wanted to know what had really happened. The constant confusion of the narrator's pov and words made it a very immersive story into a mind thats unravelling and losing track with reality.