773 reviews for:

The Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat

3.75 AVERAGE

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.
challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

Where do I even begin? How do I even put any of the emotions and thoughts I had while reading into words? I felt as if I was on a trip with Kafka and Murakami but somehow even better and even more desperate to understand what I am seeing (reading). Over and over again I tried to crawl back as I was spiraling while I turned pages on and on. Beautiful.
challenging dark reflective 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: Yes

nicetrip
challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious

This book is incredibly strange, it jumps between illusion, reality and a mixture of both while also triggering an existential crisis. It literally felt like a dream; time and space merge together to become this subconscious mess and you just stumble through it and try to piece the parts together. Felt more like a experience than a book- please please read it, I desperately need someone to discuss with
dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes