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beth_joey 's review for:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
You know the book you're reading isn't for you when you are genuinely counting down the pages until you reach the end...
Maybe me not enjoying this book was because I tried to read the bulk of it between midnight and 2am on a Saturday night and so I was too tired to fully keep track.
Maybe there were too many 'incompletes' by the end of the book when all I wanted was just to understand what happened to the three women who went missing at Hanging Rock.
The zoning out thing that seemed to happen to Miranda when she walked off seemed so random and the math teacher just disappearing with only a vague later reference to her being raped and murdered felt unnecessarily unfinished.
Maybe that was the point that Lindsay was trying to make - that no one truly knew what happened and so neither would the reader.
Or maybe I was supposed to read into the hints dropped about the Headmistress. That she not only killed Sarah but somehow the three women and the people who died in the fire.
Maybe the Headmistress threw herself off the rock to bring the deaths of the girls at Hanging Rock full-circle. But did those girls even die?
The whole book felt like a situation and not a story... It felt incomplete and lacked the context I needed to draw any kind of conclusion about the events.
I really wanted to like this book but now... I'll never forget it, in the worst possible way.
Maybe me not enjoying this book was because I tried to read the bulk of it between midnight and 2am on a Saturday night and so I was too tired to fully keep track.
Maybe there were too many 'incompletes' by the end of the book when all I wanted was just to understand what happened to the three women who went missing at Hanging Rock.
The zoning out thing that seemed to happen to Miranda when she walked off seemed so random and the math teacher just disappearing with only a vague later reference to her being raped and murdered felt unnecessarily unfinished.
Maybe that was the point that Lindsay was trying to make - that no one truly knew what happened and so neither would the reader.
Or maybe I was supposed to read into the hints dropped about the Headmistress. That she not only killed Sarah but somehow the three women and the people who died in the fire.
Maybe the Headmistress threw herself off the rock to bring the deaths of the girls at Hanging Rock full-circle. But did those girls even die?
The whole book felt like a situation and not a story... It felt incomplete and lacked the context I needed to draw any kind of conclusion about the events.
I really wanted to like this book but now... I'll never forget it, in the worst possible way.