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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Otessa Moshfegh has got to be one of my favorite modern day writers. The atmosphere in this book is thrilling. For a while, nothing awful happens. Eileen lives her daily life going to the prison, buying booze for her alcoholic father and stalking her work crush. Though her narration makes everything twisted, gross, and also deeply loving and personal. Even the hateful moments were quite loving, and the authenticity of Eileen as a character felt real. Her flawed innocence, will to impress. The heartbreak.
When the drama escalated into absurdity, I couldn't put it down. It felt like a cross between literary fiction and an investigative novel. Still, I am suspect to say. I love the 60s, I could picture Eileen vividly. Her home, her neighborhood. And the winter christmas atmosphere, dreams of New York... It all seemed dreamy due to the nostalgia of it all, besides portraying violence and dirtiness.
When the drama escalated into absurdity, I couldn't put it down. It felt like a cross between literary fiction and an investigative novel. Still, I am suspect to say. I love the 60s, I could picture Eileen vividly. Her home, her neighborhood. And the winter christmas atmosphere, dreams of New York... It all seemed dreamy due to the nostalgia of it all, besides portraying violence and dirtiness.
I’ll get back to this sometime when I get out this reading slump
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Dark, perverse, often gross. Moshfegh continues to craft bleak, dark glimpses into characters fractured psyches. This time through Eileen; a deeply lonely, intensely grim and yet very naive 20 something who thrusts herself into increasingly darker situations all in the honorable, tragic pursuit of being loved. Moshfegh has an incredible ability to craft unique voices in her writing and Eileen stands wholly unique in the pantheon of modern literary figures as we readers struggle to figure out how we feel about her.
Wholly original as all of her work feels. Though not ultimately as interesting as her other works.
Wholly original as all of her work feels. Though not ultimately as interesting as her other works.
Such an internal novel. Moshfegh writes characters who I think would bewilder most people by their outward appearances, but you understand their every otherwise inexplicable motive while reading these narratives
All character development with a plot somehow in there by the end.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes