A review by marlisenicole
Erewhon by Samuel Butler

3.0

I’m not entirely sure how this ended up on my to-read list but it did. It’s a 19th century Victorian satire that was sometimes hard to follow due to my lack of full understanding of the Victorian era. What I liked least of all was that it wasn’t a novel or an essay but a strange mashing together of the two. I wanted to get through the essay parts quickly in order to get back to the more intriguing storyline, but when the book was concluded, I found that the story was really just a loose string of events to justify the essay. The last chapter is the most disconcerting of all and it is hard to know if it was earnest or the taking of his satire to the farthest level. Anyway, I’ve read it. I guess I can check a box or something but I feel I may have wasted a few hours of my life with this one.