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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
I liked this book a lot. Except for the dad sections and for the sections when the son is older (about 1/3 of the book). I guess I really don’t care about the inner lives of middle-aged upper-class men. As I’ve argued for years, not every book needs to enthusiastically pass the Bechdel test. There’s are stories about men that should and need to be told. Much of this book was engrossing. But I guess I’m just not that interested in the musing of the most privileged people in society and their struggles with success. Call me a feminazi.
A bit confused by the ending — like what did the last scenes have to do with anything. I can understand a last chapter in a “where are they now” sort of way except that’s not what it was. Also the whole Darren storyline and having that in the synopsis is a bit pointless to me. Also really wanted to just get a bit more into the Jane and Jonathan dynamics that we started seeing in their final chapters.
It felt like a lot of build up for nothing.
It felt like a lot of build up for nothing.
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I really loved what this book was saying and wish it stayed fiction so we could get one coherent message. Maybe it’s just me but I’m tired of hearing anything trump & blaming him for all things toxic masculinity or seeing him solely as the culmination of it is reductive and won’t solve toxic masculinity.
This book honestly just kind of irritated me. I should stop jut reading the synopsis of books and actually shuffle through the pages to also see how the book is written. I hate how this book was written with the little to zero dialogue. The only other book that I have read like this was The Sympathizer but at least I knew what that book was about. This book I heavily struggled with what was going on almost the entire time. There were so many words on the page that it was easy to get distracted because some pages were entirely one paragraph with no indentation or conversation being started. I’m only giving it two stars because out of the fifteen chapters there were I at least enjoyed three of them, but it sucks that, that was the only time I enjoyed this book. I don’t want to read a book if it feels like a chore or a class assignment, and that’s how I felt reading this book.
Very well written
Learned about: psychoanalysis, debate, masculinity
File under: thoughtful, poetic, slow reads, engrossing, timely, not about how i thought it would be
Learned about: psychoanalysis, debate, masculinity
File under: thoughtful, poetic, slow reads, engrossing, timely, not about how i thought it would be
Some good, some bad. It really fired on all cylinders when communicating the facts of the story. Could have done without the meditative, philosophical stuff and the ending. If it had stuck to the story and the creation of place, the dive into the characters, I would have enjoyed it more. Overwritten at times.
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
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