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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
Do not read this book! It's horrible and tortuous. Later on, there's some interesting stuff about morality, but it's not worth surviving the rest of this crap. It's also really really ableist.
I struggled to finish this. None of the characters are likeable especially Quentin. Reading this made me think that the author really hates women!
This book has all of the elements of a 5/5 favourites read, but it just dragged a bit at places and rushed in others
I was so excited about this book, because it sounded right up my alley. But then, by the time they leave school, it's like it becomes too real: students that finish university, particularly those who enjoyed classes and did well in them not doing well afterwards, becoming depressed, living their dreams and having them turn out to be a huge let down...
But the big problem I have with this book, is that the "hero" of the piece is a coward who puts so little effort in... And doesn't actually do anything. The women in his life, however, are brilliant, self-sacrificing and brave, always pulling his ass out of the fire, and yet keep praising him and telling him they couldn't have done it without him. It's upsetting.
But the big problem I have with this book, is that the "hero" of the piece is a coward who puts so little effort in... And doesn't actually do anything. The women in his life, however, are brilliant, self-sacrificing and brave, always pulling his ass out of the fire, and yet keep praising him and telling him they couldn't have done it without him. It's upsetting.
Damn. Started great and just lost it near the end when it turned into The Violent Legend of Zelda or Something (I don't know my games very well). I'm struggling to finish it.
Did not finish. The magic system and world of this book is really interesting, but god, does it have to be so relentlessly depressing and dull? Could've done without Quentin's internal monologue, too. Do we really need to know if a woman's boobs are "gropable"? (Spoiler: we don't.)
A melancholy satire of Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia
Disturbing climatic scene. Annoying main character, but for whatever reason I still wanted to know what happened to him.
This book is the reason I’ve stopped reading things written by men. I got to page 11, suffering through Quentin’s uninteresting self-pity about his boring existence, only to experience the sentence “Unpretty women were so much easier to deal with in some ways—you didn’t have to face the pain of their probable unattainability,” followed almost immediately by the narrator describing a female EMT as having a “broad, ridiculously sexy mouth” and promptly gave up for good. This book is a perfect candidate for the Twitter account @menwritewomen.