A review by seahorsemojinow
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

1.0

I read this book for class and I have to write an Actual review for it, but in the meantime - I really did not enjoy this book. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt for the longest time, but it really didn't deserve it. It was boring and entirely too metatextual in clichéd and uninteresting ways. The characters were less than unsympathetic, but just watery, like bad oatmeal. It was made entirely too clear by the End that the author's Point was that writing cannot be about communicating beliefs, but it wasn't a point well made, and if that's your position, then the least you could do is make reading that position be an enjoyable experience.