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A review by gudgercollege
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
2.0
I didn't actually finish this. I wanted to love it because I saw Momaday in the Ken Burns documentary about the West and really enjoyed his segments but this style of book, primarily visual and sensual, is not something I really respond to as a reader. It's a beautifully written book, but not for me.
**
I felt guilty about not finishing this because it's the kind of pretentious thing with fancy credentials that I love (oooh, a Pulitzer!), so I put on the audiobook and listened to it all day, but I just did not connect to this. It's mostly full of meandering impressions rather than, like, plot or characters, and there's a part where some guy is giving a sermon that lasted I swear to god 30 minutes in the audiobook. It all went in one ear and out the other. So it's the same result as when I DNF'd this like 8 years ago but I got closure.
**
I felt guilty about not finishing this because it's the kind of pretentious thing with fancy credentials that I love (oooh, a Pulitzer!), so I put on the audiobook and listened to it all day, but I just did not connect to this. It's mostly full of meandering impressions rather than, like, plot or characters, and there's a part where some guy is giving a sermon that lasted I swear to god 30 minutes in the audiobook. It all went in one ear and out the other. So it's the same result as when I DNF'd this like 8 years ago but I got closure.