lalaboots 's review for:

The Seducer's Diary by Søren Kierkegaard

1.0

challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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You don't have to like a protagonist to enjoy a book but even by the sexist standards of the day, Johannes is a total creep.  Women are objects to be obtained and once he has manipulated them into falling for him (it's all false) he is bored by them and drops them. Even this arseholery isn't the problem with the book.  The problem is that his interior monologue of observations on girls, young women, femininity, womenhood etc etc what it should or shouldn't be done according to him is trite, offensive and incredibly dull.   By the middle of this short book I was skimming the pages unable to read any more of his nonsense.  His letters I didn't read at all, too boring, too flowery, too false.  I hated this!