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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
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:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racial slurs
Not my cuppa tea. Like Faulkner and Kafka, both of whom I love, Wolfe's writes from within the narrator's real time experience of the events, which can be both disorienting and fascinating. Unlike others, Wolfe writes as if he is getting paid by the word. Some sentences are so packed w/ verbiage, they are literally incomprehensible.
Vivid character development and sense of time and place - good as they were - didn't compensate for me for the tedium.
Vivid character development and sense of time and place - good as they were - didn't compensate for me for the tedium.
inspiring
reflective
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
While I didn't read this in long sittings, I don't think I would have wanted to. It turned out to be more of a slog than I anticipated. Some interesting moments, but over all just not what I'd hoped for.
I can't remember how I stumbled onto this book, but I'm so glad I did, mammoth though it was. Beautiful, poetic, Wolfe managed to make me fall in love with his unloveable characters.
I did it. I finished it. It only took some 4 months. Scott Sowers deserves an award for his narration (singing included).
Wolfe's musings on death really punch the gut, knowing as a reader that the author would meet his untimely end at 37.
I'm glad I read it. Damned if he didn't have a grip on words. It feels like a prologue to a life; and good for him to have the courage to lay all of that bare. Maybe someday later, I'll get to more. One Wolfe a year might be doable
Thomas Wolfe has given me very little dopamine, and very many thoughts; and I'm alright with that bargain.
Wolfe's musings on death really punch the gut, knowing as a reader that the author would meet his untimely end at 37.
I'm glad I read it. Damned if he didn't have a grip on words. It feels like a prologue to a life; and good for him to have the courage to lay all of that bare. Maybe someday later, I'll get to more. One Wolfe a year might be doable
Thomas Wolfe has given me very little dopamine, and very many thoughts; and I'm alright with that bargain.
It took me 3/4th of the way through to appreciate this book, and then I wanted to go back and start it again. But it's a tough read--you kind of have to just sit and watch all the color and detail go by, and not get impatient about the lack of story.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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