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A review by redheadbeans
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
1.0
The prose is elegant and it does have one truly beautiful line near the very end of the book that touched me. The description is all very good.
I found this book extremely boring. I could almost tell no difference in my comprehension and enjoyment between when I was falling asleep while reading and when I was wide awake while reading, and I can assure you that this book will make you fall asleep. Not much happens.
There are some very deep messages, if you can sift through the overlong prose, about loneliness, disconnect, communication, gossip, and mourning. These are nice, but the book still feels bloated.
I would not recommend this to anyone. If you have to read it for a class, as I did, prepare for a long haul.
I found this book extremely boring. I could almost tell no difference in my comprehension and enjoyment between when I was falling asleep while reading and when I was wide awake while reading, and I can assure you that this book will make you fall asleep. Not much happens.
There are some very deep messages, if you can sift through the overlong prose, about loneliness, disconnect, communication, gossip, and mourning. These are nice, but the book still feels bloated.
I would not recommend this to anyone. If you have to read it for a class, as I did, prepare for a long haul.