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donovandelafield 's review for:
The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
My favorite quote about this book from another Goodreads reviewer:
"While there are glimmers of poignancy and truth, they're mired in agonizing prose and anachronistic, infuriating minutiae." -Adam Perschbacher
It wasn't even the countless mention of wet shits that got to me (although the endless cycles of run, hide, hunt, shit & sleep to allow for tedious flashbacks did). No, it was this sense that the author was, rather arrogantly, trying to shock us with how raw she thought she could be. There wasn't anything raw about the story, or grounded or graceful, insightful, etc.- it just wasn't there. The most memorable thing was, in fact, the wet shits. The prose (and attempts to shock) reminded me vaugely of the character Vi in Todd Solondz's film 'Storytelling' as a naive attempt to inhabit a space one can't really fill. As with Vi, this author had trouble delivering a beginning, middle and end.
"While there are glimmers of poignancy and truth, they're mired in agonizing prose and anachronistic, infuriating minutiae." -Adam Perschbacher
It wasn't even the countless mention of wet shits that got to me (although the endless cycles of run, hide, hunt, shit & sleep to allow for tedious flashbacks did). No, it was this sense that the author was, rather arrogantly, trying to shock us with how raw she thought she could be. There wasn't anything raw about the story, or grounded or graceful, insightful, etc.- it just wasn't there. The most memorable thing was, in fact, the wet shits. The prose (and attempts to shock) reminded me vaugely of the character Vi in Todd Solondz's film 'Storytelling' as a naive attempt to inhabit a space one can't really fill. As with Vi, this author had trouble delivering a beginning, middle and end.