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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Pat Conroy is the man.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the beautifully written and moving story of a family told in great detail. The amount of information is almost overwhelming, but it serves the purpose of painting the whole picture. Needless to say, characterization is amazing! I feel like I know this family, like I know why they have become who they are, damaged and incapable of love. So if you like emotional books about relationships (particularly familial bonds), then this one's for you.
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Beautiful, Brilliant, Emotionally Brutal 5/5
"The Prince of Tides," by Pat Conroy is a family epic of the highest order; a beautiful, brilliant, and emotionally brutal novel that explores the darkest depths of human depravity and failure even as it reaches heroically for reconciliation and redemption.
I was quite taken by Conroy's story-telling and narrative skills. His prose is fantastic throughout the novel, including stunning descriptive passages, insightful observations, and witty dialogue.
I wholeheartedly recommend this novel.
(I also listened to the audible version narrated by Alan Carlson, and would also recommend it for those that prefer audiobooks.)
"The Prince of Tides," by Pat Conroy is a family epic of the highest order; a beautiful, brilliant, and emotionally brutal novel that explores the darkest depths of human depravity and failure even as it reaches heroically for reconciliation and redemption.
I was quite taken by Conroy's story-telling and narrative skills. His prose is fantastic throughout the novel, including stunning descriptive passages, insightful observations, and witty dialogue.
I wholeheartedly recommend this novel.
(I also listened to the audible version narrated by Alan Carlson, and would also recommend it for those that prefer audiobooks.)
Started great then got really slow, may pick it up again when my attention span is able to handle it.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the first book I've ever read of its kind. I mainly stick to fantasy and science fiction and I only started this one because it was presented in my book club. I am so glad I was forced to read this frigging book. I really had no idea a story void of wizards and space ships could bo so engaging. Conroy has such an engaging writing style that really drew me in and feel close to all the characters. I'm looking forward to reading more entries in the genre.
I love this book so much. The language is beautiful. Lyrical, almost. Conroy paints a picture like few others can.
This is a huge, sprawling, rich novel, filled with genuinely beautiful writing (the short story which the character of Savannah Wingo is presented as having written under an assumed name two-thirds of the way through the book left me in tears), but not one that was always satisfying to me. As fits a story that is attempting to capture in its fullness a place (the low country of South Carolina) and a family (the abusive, brilliant, profoundly damaged Wingo clan), it has chapters that are filled with triumph, despair, intimate revelations, horror, ribald humor, and play-old baroque lunacy. There are times when the latter seemed to me as intricately plotted and fitted into the overall story as a John Irving novel; other times I felt like I was being given a mini story-within-the-story about sex and violence and desire and faith which ought to have been key to the characters' development, but maybe was just a good side yarn. There is a horrifying moment in the book that would perfectly connect with the Wingo family's collective madness and psychological dysfunction, and yet the story continued on from that moment for hundreds of pages, eventually giving us a climax far more subdued and political and sociological and tragic in the completely ordinary sense than what the outrageousness of so much of which preceded it would have suggested. And as for the love story that in some ways centers the lives of Tom Wingo and Susan Lowenstein, it's nicely realized, but a bit perfunctory all the same. I don't know if I'll ever recommend this novel to anyone, but there was lot that was beautiful about it, and maybe that's enough.
Very intensive book. Great writing style and ability. Read for the journey, not the destination.