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Mrs Death Misses Death
by Salena Godden
DID NOT FINISH
DNF 100 pages in.
Too repetitive and meandering for me personally. While I liked the idea of prose being mixed in with poetry in theory, the actual execution of the poetry felt sloppy to me. The verse sections were highly repetitive and rambling and felt like a first draft stream of consciousness. From what I gather from a cursory search of the author is that she's a performance poet and narrates the audiobook, so it's possible the verse is better experienced listened too rather than read.
I feel like I'm being repetitive with my use of the word repetitive here, but it really is the most appropriate way to describe my problems with the book. So many words are dedicated to saying the exact same thing in only slightly different arrangements of words. It felt like the book had a single point, 'death makes life meaningful and death comes for us all', got that message across in the first few paragraphs, then remembered novels have to meet a certain word count so the same point was bloated and bluffed to 300 pages.
Also the Jack the Ripper was a He/Him Lesbian bit was just a very bizarre thing to make up.
Too repetitive and meandering for me personally. While I liked the idea of prose being mixed in with poetry in theory, the actual execution of the poetry felt sloppy to me. The verse sections were highly repetitive and rambling and felt like a first draft stream of consciousness. From what I gather from a cursory search of the author is that she's a performance poet and narrates the audiobook, so it's possible the verse is better experienced listened too rather than read.
I feel like I'm being repetitive with my use of the word repetitive here, but it really is the most appropriate way to describe my problems with the book. So many words are dedicated to saying the exact same thing in only slightly different arrangements of words. It felt like the book had a single point, 'death makes life meaningful and death comes for us all', got that message across in the first few paragraphs, then remembered novels have to meet a certain word count so the same point was bloated and bluffed to 300 pages.
Also the Jack the Ripper was a He/Him Lesbian bit was just a very bizarre thing to make up.