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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
Really wasn’t expecting to enjoy this as much as i did
I had to read this for my college english class and my gosh it was a struggle just trying to listen to the audiobook on youtube. I stopped reading at Part 4 Section I. The narrator is just annoying. It was hard to understand where I was and what Dowell was talking about because he just kept rumbling on to another topic. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone!!!!!
A+ storytelling! I’ve really been appreciating these satirical observations of the wealthy in the early 20th century (especially when the authors were often caught up in this particular set themselves!) Unexpectedly laugh-out-loud funny in many parts.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Crazy, unreliable, biased narrator talks about how his wife was unfaithful with his friend, everyone dies. Happy days.
I don't see the point of this book. I think some of its value is in showing that "good" people -- meaning the "right sort of people", those who don't have to work for a living and who hold a certain place in society -- are not always morally good people. Or maybe that appearances are deceiving. I am a lawyer, a woman, and was raised in the lowest level of middle-class America. This is not news to me. I didn't like any of these people and I kept on reading the book only because I was hoping to find a point to it. There wasn't one. There was a lot of racism and classism and judgment being passed on people quite casually by our supposedly righteous narrator. And yet this is 'great literature' instead of just a boringly sordid post-Victorian Gothic soap opera.
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
tense
slow-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
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated