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and_abelard_reads 's review for:
Lost
by Gregory Maguire
The things I didn't like about this book don't make it a bad book, I just didn't enjoy it. At all.
I struggled to invest in the characters and the plot, although this fact can be used to demonstrate Maguire's skill as a writer, as we experience the turmoil of the protagonist (Winnie) struggling to invest in her own life and her novel, attempting to work through her problems in fiction and becoming disassociated with reality. The shifts between Maguire's narrative and Winnie's “ novel-within-a-novel” and the snatches of other works Maguire references when Winnie calls on them to give her comfort are, I suspect, supposed to involve us in the mystery of Winnie's trauma whilst having us empathise with her through reading the fragmented text. Mostly I found it frustrating and off-putting, though this may have been the point.
All in all, there's nothing particularity wrong with it, it just wasn't my cup of tea.
I struggled to invest in the characters and the plot, although this fact can be used to demonstrate Maguire's skill as a writer, as we experience the turmoil of the protagonist (Winnie) struggling to invest in her own life and her novel, attempting to work through her problems in fiction and becoming disassociated with reality. The shifts between Maguire's narrative and Winnie's “ novel-within-a-novel” and the snatches of other works Maguire references when Winnie calls on them to give her comfort are, I suspect, supposed to involve us in the mystery of Winnie's trauma whilst having us empathise with her through reading the fragmented text. Mostly I found it frustrating and off-putting, though this may have been the point.
All in all, there's nothing particularity wrong with it, it just wasn't my cup of tea.