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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
seano312's review against another edition
4.0
This was a thing I read. I can’t really bring myself to review it right now. It was quite strange and quite good.
lonelypigeon's review against another edition
2.0
I am, once in a while, stunned by a book for the reasons bordering on bad, and this was one of those times. Miss Lonelyhearts, and West, were truly ahead of their time, and the murky and dark and downtrodden nature of the words are an aspect I can say I gained enjoyment from, but the story itself, the content, the plot, and the way it unfolded, was something I found very difficult to like. This isn't a bad book, and some might even call it magnetic and brilliant, but for me it was a huge disappointment. I wanted to fall for this book, to find something truly memorable about the tale as it unfolded, to experience Nathanael West's work for the first time and be in awe. I wasn't, but I will read on, I will continue to read West's work because I do think he had a very unique voice, a human one that wasn't afraid to speak out of turn or kick up a few dusty rocks. Such a shame though, I wanted more here. Maybe next time I'll be more lucky.
biladhaa's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
buddhafish's review against another edition
3.0
67th book of 2020.
This is a pretty quick read, and a strange one. Miss Lonelyhearts is in fact, a man. He works for an advice column and I suppose he isn't very good at his job. He drinks too much. Has liaisons with women, he's a pretty standard fiction-man. The novel has an odd sense of black humour, which at one point leaves the ballpark of being 'black humour' and simply becomes depressing. And violent. All the same, an interesting read, but nothing special; good to kill a few hours, at the least.
This is a pretty quick read, and a strange one. Miss Lonelyhearts is in fact, a man. He works for an advice column and I suppose he isn't very good at his job. He drinks too much. Has liaisons with women, he's a pretty standard fiction-man. The novel has an odd sense of black humour, which at one point leaves the ballpark of being 'black humour' and simply becomes depressing. And violent. All the same, an interesting read, but nothing special; good to kill a few hours, at the least.
xanadu_'s review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
fast-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
3.25
misskirstyjade's review against another edition
dark
sad
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? Complicated
2.75
la_lily_lu_le_lo's review against another edition
maybe worth a visit another time, but tbh I am increasingly bored of 'everyone and everything is shit' without even a semblance of hope. get enough of that in my real life.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
blairmahoney's review against another edition
5.0
Miss Lonelyhearts is just as grim as the excellent later novel The Day of the Locust but I found the unresolvable pain of the titular protagonist to be more tightly focused and absorbing. A terrific short work.