danny_thereader 's review for:

Grendel by John Gardner

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I feel like I can’t give this book a fair review because I read it for school. All the annotations just kinda muddled everything I was reading. I did think the writing was good. Most of the book was just super confusing. I don’t really understand the purpose of this. I doesn’t really tell you anything that you don’t already know. Grendel isn’t redeemed for what he is doing in Beowulf, which I didn’t read but I know the story. I really didn’t get anything out of this but 170 pages of Grendel complaining about how unfair life is.