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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
I did not like this at all.
In most of the stories I couldn’t make any sense of them, they were so confusing for seemingly no reason.
In most of the stories I couldn’t make any sense of them, they were so confusing for seemingly no reason.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wish all the stories in this collections would have been as good as Unguided Tour - that one was really something.
znormalizujmy nie wyjaśnianie kontekstu ! osobiście uwielbiam Susan za pisanie w tym stylu i jeśli kiedykolwiek coś w życiu napiszę to za przykładem tej pani, dziękuję pięknie mwah mwah
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a very confusing collection of short stories if there ever was one. I quite liked the first one, Pilgrimage, and naively expected the rest to follow the lead. Oh, but was I mistaken. Pilgrimage is the only short story in the book that reads 'normal'. It is an intimate autobiographical vignette, a cherished memory. I sincerely wished there was more.
But I was simply not prepared for the surrealistic, bizarre, and chaotic stories that followed. Each written in a different style too. There is no opening to a Sontag's short story, and sometimes there's no ending either. There's a middle of what feels like a storm of characters and random thoughts. It took me a while to get into each one, if I could manage to do so at all. I ended up quite liking American Spirits and The Dummy too. They were not my cup of tea in the beginning, but I thought they carried quite funny metaphors about American society. I have no thoughts about the rest, I didn't care for it. This book caused me to get into a reading slump and I am happy I'm done with it now.
But I was simply not prepared for the surrealistic, bizarre, and chaotic stories that followed. Each written in a different style too. There is no opening to a Sontag's short story, and sometimes there's no ending either. There's a middle of what feels like a storm of characters and random thoughts. It took me a while to get into each one, if I could manage to do so at all. I ended up quite liking American Spirits and The Dummy too. They were not my cup of tea in the beginning, but I thought they carried quite funny metaphors about American society. I have no thoughts about the rest, I didn't care for it. This book caused me to get into a reading slump and I am happy I'm done with it now.
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Esperava muito mais da Sontag. Nunca lhe tinha lido a ficção e não me deslumbrou.
O primeiro texto é soberbo, sobretudo porque não estou certa de que seja o relato de um evento real (li os diários dela contemporâneos desse episódio e nem uma só entrada sobre o assunto...). A partir daí é sempre a descer com ligeiras e pontuais subidas.
O primeiro texto é soberbo, sobretudo porque não estou certa de que seja o relato de um evento real (li os diários dela contemporâneos desse episódio e nem uma só entrada sobre o assunto...). A partir daí é sempre a descer com ligeiras e pontuais subidas.
reflective
medium-paced