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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Finished reading on //2024: Will add my review soon.
Updated with review //2024:
Updated with review //2024:
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I think this book may be the exception to the rule 'the book is always better.' This book is somehow stranger and also lamer than the movie, better and also worse, so don't ask which is better cause I don't know. It is very fragmented and I think without the knowledge of the story told in the film I wouldn't have understood anything.
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:
No
Not sure why I didn't just DNF this. Will still watch the movie however.
4,5. Riktigt bra, konstig bok. Drog tankarna till A Series of Unfortunate Events och Trust. Vilken blandning va?
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
dark
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Poor Things was like nothing I have read before. I thought of it as the Literature student's goldmine because it covers EVERYTHING: feminism, socialism, post-colonialism, religion, freudian psycho-analysis.
I probably need to be more well-read to make this statement, but, it felt incredibly avante-garde and original. It was so clever! And so detail-oriented. I wish I didn't have to rush it for book club; I definitely must re-read it when I have the time to extract as much as I can from it.
I do not have any particular reflections on the characters, more so about what they symbolised and what the book was trying to say. I thought at times it was religiously allegorical i.e. Godwin aka 'God' creates this strange being with a child's brain, innocent and brand new with a refreshing sense of morality which would have otherwise been decayed by society, class, and a cruel world. This novel is a thought-experinent. It destigmatises temptation and sex in such a unique way. I think that it is feminist in its core when evaluated as such.
The freudian shit?? Godwin as parent, creator, and hopeful lover to mend the gap of not having a mother and having a deranged father? McCandless as the weak narrator who seeks Godwin as his father and Bella as his mother / lover?
I probably need to be more well-read to make this statement, but, it felt incredibly avante-garde and original. It was so clever! And so detail-oriented. I wish I didn't have to rush it for book club; I definitely must re-read it when I have the time to extract as much as I can from it.
I do not have any particular reflections on the characters, more so about what they symbolised and what the book was trying to say. I thought at times it was religiously allegorical i.e. Godwin aka 'God' creates this strange being with a child's brain, innocent and brand new with a refreshing sense of morality which would have otherwise been decayed by society, class, and a cruel world. This novel is a thought-experinent. It destigmatises temptation and sex in such a unique way. I think that it is feminist in its core when evaluated as such.
The freudian shit?? Godwin as parent, creator, and hopeful lover to mend the gap of not having a mother and having a deranged father? McCandless as the weak narrator who seeks Godwin as his father and Bella as his mother / lover?