4.38k reviews for:

Der Sympathisant

Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.01 AVERAGE

tonges's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark reflective sad slow-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

trxcymbr's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

zdrhyne's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

gregcarlin1's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

mronfive's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sailor_marmar's review against another edition

4.75

dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gemma7's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

foresturken's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny sad tense slow-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

latterman's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

ellenstan's review against another edition

5.0

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the last several chapters were quite a hard read and i didn’t love the appearance of the “do violence to a woman to power character growth of a man” trope, but overall this was so good. all of the oblique sarcasm layered in with descriptions of events really reminded me of catch 22 and gave weight to every word. i love that style so much; to me it is what distinguishes a book from a novel.