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elluuhnn 's review for:
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
It was... okay. I really enjoyed some of Fowles descriptions of loneliness and sorrow. Things like “It’s sorrow welled out of it as purely, naturally and unstoppable as water out of a woodland spring” or “It was as if she has become addicted to melancholy as one becomes addicted to opium. Her sadness becomes her happiness” or “In such wells of loneliness is not coming together closer to humanity than perversity?”
But then, he kept doing strange things that I wasn’t fond of such as saying that he (as the author) is not in control of the characters and then he also has a little fake ending, but it clearly isn’t the end because you can feel about a sixth of the book remaining in your hands.
I also didn’t really like any of the characters at all. Charles was irritating and had a bit of a saviour complex and Sarah was also irritating.
The only reason I somewhat enjoyed this book was for the nice bits of description of the coast and loneliness.
But then, he kept doing strange things that I wasn’t fond of such as saying that he (as the author) is not in control of the characters and then he also has a little fake ending, but it clearly isn’t the end because you can feel about a sixth of the book remaining in your hands.
I also didn’t really like any of the characters at all. Charles was irritating and had a bit of a saviour complex and Sarah was also irritating.
The only reason I somewhat enjoyed this book was for the nice bits of description of the coast and loneliness.