A review by jesshaleth
The Crazed by Ha Jin

3.0

I get the feeling that perhaps my tastes are terribly unrefined for this. Either that, or 80% is extremely slow paced, and feels somewhat irrelevant in the face of the last fifth of the book. I know that of course it wasn't, and we needed to properly appreciate the situation that Jian was in to really get the end. However, I didn't enjoy spending time with Jian. Of course - he's SUPPOSED to be a bit of a loser, but I really didn't find anything about him that interested me at all, making me not care much what happened. Indeed, even by the end it wasn't really him I cared about. That said, it compelled me to keep reading, and it painted an interesting portrait.