nietlucht 's review for:

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

DID NOT FINISH: 46%

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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2 | DNF, stopped at page 253.

The book had a few good parts but it was SO horrendously bad at literally every other part. The book talks, the main character is also reading and reacting the book while it's talking to him (and is reading and talking about his mum's sex life?? in detail??), and it's criticism on capitalism is quite literally shown by a character saying "It's a disaster, capitalism". Another literal quote from the book: "[...] with other members of the transcultural, pansexual, postgender radical youth she called her posse." The whole "posse" is shown like a weird charicature of activists and radicals.

Could've been a great book but it was so painfully badly written that I had to put it down. Sorry.