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A review by elenareads
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Did not finish book.
I didn't care about the characters. That's not quite it. The depiction of the characters made me angry. They are not characters, they are caricatures. Annabelle is a fat border - all her action are affected by the fact that she is either fat or a holder or both. The extend of her personality is fat and harder, beyond that she had no inner thoughts. I spent now so much time with her but I learned nothing about her, about what drives her and motivates her beyond fat, horder, oh yeah, and truly third place, being a mom.
Benny is just a kid who is sick. Again no inner thoughts, no motives, no hopes. He's barely there to have things happen to someone.
The Aleph is literally a manic pixie dream girl. Imagine, in this day and age. Again, we learn nothing about her inner world.
B-man is a Russian understood to be unhaused character. He got an accent. No, I mean, Ozeki took time to write down an English phonetical version of what a Hollywood east European character sounds like. You know, half German, half Slavic, half Italian. Again, amazing, in this day and age. Does it add any depth to the character, in case the reader could not imagine a Russian? I works argue no
There's are just better things to read out there
Benny is just a kid who is sick. Again no inner thoughts, no motives, no hopes. He's barely there to have things happen to someone.
The Aleph is literally a manic pixie dream girl. Imagine, in this day and age. Again, we learn nothing about her inner world.
B-man is a Russian understood to be unhaused character. He got an accent. No, I mean, Ozeki took time to write down an English phonetical version of what a Hollywood east European character sounds like. You know, half German, half Slavic, half Italian. Again, amazing, in this day and age. Does it add any depth to the character, in case the reader could not imagine a Russian? I works argue no
There's are just better things to read out there