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A review by kokechii
You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King
2.0
They said folktales and Wong Kar Wai and I was in.
Sadly about half way through the book I badly wanted out. The writing style was for me the biggest problem. So disjointed at times that I often felt lost, like whole parts or sentences were missing. The jumping of thoughts and meandering around made it really hard for me to connect to the narrator in any way. (Like the very ending - this isn't a spoiler - mentions both Before Sunset and Moon River and I hated those references because it's so dependent on the reality that the reader both saw and heard them to understand why he's even mentioning them and just... yeah. Show, don't tell?)
Didn't like the narrator nor his girlfriend and I remember the first time a sexual act was mentioned it came out of the left field for me so much so that I reeled back from my Kindle because just... What? The whole book felt like that, me constantly saying What??
The only thing I liked were the actual Chinese folktales.
Sadly about half way through the book I badly wanted out. The writing style was for me the biggest problem. So disjointed at times that I often felt lost, like whole parts or sentences were missing. The jumping of thoughts and meandering around made it really hard for me to connect to the narrator in any way. (Like the very ending - this isn't a spoiler - mentions both Before Sunset and Moon River and I hated those references because it's so dependent on the reality that the reader both saw and heard them to understand why he's even mentioning them and just... yeah. Show, don't tell?)
Didn't like the narrator nor his girlfriend and I remember the first time a sexual act was mentioned it came out of the left field for me so much so that I reeled back from my Kindle because just... What? The whole book felt like that, me constantly saying What??
The only thing I liked were the actual Chinese folktales.