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A review by palomapepper
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
1.0
Clipped, boring writing style. Short declarative sentences, with little variation. It gets old, really fast.
It's an autobiographical story, so when the narrator compares his own writing to Hemingway's, here I am rolling my eyes: “As long as I wrote about exotic things, I thought, then I could be a not very good writer and still be successful.” UGH. Just writing a story for "success", not aiming for quality in story and prose. WHY BOTHER.
Also: every character is unpleasant, and not even in an interesting way. The story is an unrelenting cascade of miseries, without a real sense of plot driving it forward.
Not sure why I finished this.
It's an autobiographical story, so when the narrator compares his own writing to Hemingway's, here I am rolling my eyes: “As long as I wrote about exotic things, I thought, then I could be a not very good writer and still be successful.” UGH. Just writing a story for "success", not aiming for quality in story and prose. WHY BOTHER.
Also: every character is unpleasant, and not even in an interesting way. The story is an unrelenting cascade of miseries, without a real sense of plot driving it forward.
Not sure why I finished this.