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doroteadora 's review for:
Pere Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
(2.5* maybe?)
At around 100 pages, this book was really interesting and I enjoyed the dramatic aspect and side plots. But, for some reason, at the end it just got underwhelming and overall tiring.
The things I liked: Rastignac and his relationship with Goriot in the end, descriptions of the places and Balzac's ability to show us exactly what he wad thinking, also, the boarding house that he stayed in had interesting relationship and I liked interaction between the characters.
The things that weren't done well: Frirstly, Goriot in literally two pages changed his thoughts about his daughters. I know that he isn't dumb and that he knew that they were using him, but from naive character he became strangely conscious in the shortest amount of time. Vautrin's backstory is also not completly explained as well as the very end and main character's confusing sentance. The father-daughter relationship was over the top at some poins; strange, cringy and creepy.
Moreover, racism and slavery. I know that that were the common topics in that period of time, but I wasn't comfortable reading about it in a way that this book handeled them.
Overall, this book really had potential. At one point, it was a four star read for me, but I wasn't really a fan in the end. Sorry.
At around 100 pages, this book was really interesting and I enjoyed the dramatic aspect and side plots. But, for some reason, at the end it just got underwhelming and overall tiring.
The things I liked: Rastignac and his relationship with Goriot in the end, descriptions of the places and Balzac's ability to show us exactly what he wad thinking, also, the boarding house that he stayed in had interesting relationship and I liked interaction between the characters.
The things that weren't done well: Frirstly, Goriot in literally two pages changed his thoughts about his daughters. I know that he isn't dumb and that he knew that they were using him, but from naive character he became strangely conscious in the shortest amount of time. Vautrin's backstory is also not completly explained as well as the very end and main character's confusing sentance. The father-daughter relationship was over the top at some poins; strange, cringy and creepy.
Moreover, racism and slavery. I know that that were the common topics in that period of time, but I wasn't comfortable reading about it in a way that this book handeled them.
Overall, this book really had potential. At one point, it was a four star read for me, but I wasn't really a fan in the end. Sorry.