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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I found the writing in this book clunky and frankly didn’t see
The point of the entire story
The point of the entire story
This book is dark and the characters are ugly. The descriptions of the landscapes are intense.
Characters of varied flavour and hue. Sentences like knotted ropes. Many short and simple. Some long, complex, describing the world and the people in evocative detail.
Darkly humorous, poignant, subtly political, well crafted and the prose echo the temperament of the landscape of which she writes. Does stray into deeply troubling topics, but does not wallow. Literary, but readable.
This novel is super-slow paced, but that seems to fit the subject matter well. This is kind of the story of one man's process of waking up to life, of deciding to live his life rather than be an object in someone else's. There's a whole lot going on here, but most of it is surrounded by pretty mundane events. This has the effect of charging every event in the novel with cosmic importance-- a wearisome effect, at times, but I think a conscious choice on the part of the novelist. I can see why people wouldn't enjoy reading this book, but it's still really well written, and a really lovely piece of art. There is a lot to like about this book, if you can stay awake long enough to get to it.
slow-paced
It was well written, but I slowly lost interest. It was probably more because I wasn't reading it often enough.
3.5, rounded up. the first 100 pages were a slog, but the story began to pick up halfway through, and the end warmed me. a completely original style
The writing is good enough, and I liked some of the structural elements of the book, but overall I wasn't carried along by the storyline and didn't care that much about where the characters ended up. I listened to the audio version and wonder if I would have enjoyed this on the page more.
One of my favorite books of all time. I have never read a book that uses landscape as a character as well as this one does.