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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
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
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The writing is lovely, the language is beautiful but the plot is barely worth 100 pages, let alone 368... my god this went on... it kept jumping around in time and I kept losing track of where I was... and the narrator was such an unlikable fool that I didn't blame any of the women for not loving him.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
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
I looked for this book in second-hand bookshops for a while because my supervisor recommended it. Never finding it, said supervisor simply bought me a copy when he came to visit last month. I wanted to love it more because I was assured that I would so like it, but it's a difficult book to like. I could talk about it for ages with great passion I think, and yet I dislike it in so many ways. It reminds me of my experience reading [b:The Sound and the Fury|10975|The Sound and the Fury|William Faulkner|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1391342582s/10975.jpg|1168289] in that we've got this male author and male narrators utterly obsessed with the sexuality of a female. Yes, he challenges Victorian/Edwardian ideas of feminine sexual desire, and I can see why people think that it's a breath of fresh air for that reason, but I still dislike the sense that a male mind cannot cease thinking about female sexuality even if he isn't conventional in his conclusions. I wanted to throw the book away from me for that reason. It was a good read in other ways, and I liked the way that the story unfolded, and it is a very fine piece of writing that, like I said, I could discuss at great length, and will do I am sure.
You know why I hadn't read this yet? Because a girl can only read so many books about the hypocrisy of turn of the century upper class society. No joke. Rich people make a lot of rules and don't actually follow any of them.
I appreciate his chatty story-telling and I somewhat enjoyed the book for that. I might have enjoyed it more were it the first of its genre for me.
Now then, I am forever done with stories where the women are cold and calculating and magically aware of and responsible for everything, while the men are poor naive creatures full of good intentions but at the mercy of their passions and not to blame for any of their actions.
I appreciate his chatty story-telling and I somewhat enjoyed the book for that. I might have enjoyed it more were it the first of its genre for me.
Now then, I am forever done with stories where the women are cold and calculating and magically aware of and responsible for everything, while the men are poor naive creatures full of good intentions but at the mercy of their passions and not to blame for any of their actions.