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A review by ashleigheva
And Then by Natsume Sōseki
4.0
(3.75/5)
wow i really spread this book out over a longgg time
the language is stunning and the book brought up some intriguing ideas
but the shifts in timing feel too abrupt for my liking and sometimes the run on sentences and description and metaphorical manners of speech get a bit too draggy
i wish we got more of the last two pages with the symbolic imagery of burning and the colour red. the sentence structure also beautifully compounded with this to create easily one of the most captivating sections of the book. not sure if i'm being too harsh but i do find it a shame that it took me the whole book to find a part i liked that much. (though honestly that isn't even necessarily a bad thing, i just think that in the context of this book, in which it took me months to finish because i kept getting bored and stopping to read other things, i would've greatly benefitted from reading something that struck me profoundly much earlier in the book. but of course what piques my interest is an entirely subjective matter that has little to do with the writer's intentions and craft. wow what a long disclaimer)
i didn't like it nearly as much as i deeply loved kokoro but i'm still glad to have read it :-)
wow i really spread this book out over a longgg time
the language is stunning and the book brought up some intriguing ideas
but the shifts in timing feel too abrupt for my liking and sometimes the run on sentences and description and metaphorical manners of speech get a bit too draggy
i wish we got more of the last two pages with the symbolic imagery of burning and the colour red. the sentence structure also beautifully compounded with this to create easily one of the most captivating sections of the book. not sure if i'm being too harsh but i do find it a shame that it took me the whole book to find a part i liked that much. (though honestly that isn't even necessarily a bad thing, i just think that in the context of this book, in which it took me months to finish because i kept getting bored and stopping to read other things, i would've greatly benefitted from reading something that struck me profoundly much earlier in the book. but of course what piques my interest is an entirely subjective matter that has little to do with the writer's intentions and craft. wow what a long disclaimer)
i didn't like it nearly as much as i deeply loved kokoro but i'm still glad to have read it :-)