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ashj_1218 's review for:
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
I am probably a hopeless cause to not feel more impressed by this book. "It's a classic! I have to love it! I have to be possessed and haunted by the characters! It's a masterpiece!" But I was generous with a three star review. It was long, longer than it needed to be to paint the same picture. Very harpy on certain aspects that would have been fine to be said once or twice. The "interesting developments" were barely fleshed out and came far to late in the story to have much of an effect on my feelings toward the characters. I hated them all, truth be told. I tried very hard not to judge Sophie, given her tumultuous past and my sheer inability to comprehend her survival. But i hated Nathan, I hated Stingo, I hated the side characters who we learned barely anything about because we were too focused on the near nothingness of Sophie and Nathan. Maybe there was a subtle beauty that my crass and childish mind can't comprehend. Maybe I was supposed to feel the characters were doomed from the start. But I didn't feel wretched or moved by their fate and that strikes me as sad, that I couldn't muster any sadness or excitement or hope for them. Just blankness and sometimes an eye roll.