3.67 AVERAGE

carrieliza's review

3.0

I liked this book, in that it is extremely well-written and is generally an easy read. But the subject matter is not something I really cared for. Boring white man pain brought about by a selfish man. Really hard to care about anyone in the cast of characters.
dark sad slow-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

This book felt long and sad - sometimes miserable - and full of winter. Some really magnificent passages.

jamiereadthis's review

3.0

Malamud uses up time in a way I’ve rarely seen. For one, it’s fascinating to have the biographer under glass; reading Lawrence by having Dubin wrestle with Lawrence. But the reason I had to keep reading pages twice was the way Malamud uses up time; he gets from one thing to another in the middle of a sentence, and I want to pin this one up like a moth under glass just to figure out how.