A review by kumipaul
Any Human Heart by William Boyd

adventurous dark informative reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I absolutely enjoyed the flow and pacing of the writing. It was beautifully descriptive without ever being flowery. I also enjoyed the story arc, moving with Logan through his life, going from life event to life event. Sometimes he was a big success, sometimes a failure. Sometimes he was rich and sometimes he was poor, and this allowed the author to give Logan a full and sometimes exciting life. The crazy thing for me though was that I never connected with or really cared much about Logan as a human being. And I can say the same thing about his friends, family and multitude of lovers. It's an unusual disconnect to enjoy reading a well crafted book with that takes me to all sorts of interesting places, and to be so dispassionate about most of the characters. Logan did a lot of annoying name dropping as he met with Picasso, Hemingway, Virginia Wolff, the Prince of Wales, and others, and the stories of their interactions made for compelling reading. But I found Logan himself to me a third class misogynist and mostly a person who pretended his way through his 85 years, falling into occasional success.