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cashmonger 's review for:
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
challenging
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
A lot of the reviews here mention that nothing happens in this book. . . and they are correct. But, that doesn't mean you shouldn't read it!
The way Gogol describes the people the main character meets makes it all worth while. Every single person he describes has an analogue in modern times. So much so that I felt I bit called out by his portrayals of a few people (like, the lazy guy who sleeps late and then rubs his eyes for an hour, which I guess is what they did before doom scrolling) -- not because his characterizations were wrong, but because they were spot on.
I didn't realize quite how unfinished this book was before I started it. If you don't like the idea of a book that ends mid-sentence, you could always just read Part I, which makes for a reasonably coherent story on its own.
The way Gogol describes the people the main character meets makes it all worth while. Every single person he describes has an analogue in modern times. So much so that I felt I bit called out by his portrayals of a few people (like, the lazy guy who sleeps late and then rubs his eyes for an hour, which I guess is what they did before doom scrolling) -- not because his characterizations were wrong, but because they were spot on.
I didn't realize quite how unfinished this book was before I started it. If you don't like the idea of a book that ends mid-sentence, you could always just read Part I, which makes for a reasonably coherent story on its own.