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Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
I DID NOT enjoy this book. If I didn’t have to read it for class, I’m sure I would’ve DNFed it by the 50 page mark.
I found the writing to be very choppy and disjointed, and I don’t care if that was an artistic choice, it made it extremely hard for me to follow the story. There also seemed to be a lot of (unimportant) info dumping. I just couldn’t get myself to really care about the plot, nor most of the characters.
Anil was... bland. Her character was flat. She had little to no character arc. She was boring. I’m not sure if this is just a case of “men writing women,” cause it very well might be, but goodness gracious, I couldn’t care less about her.
Gamini and Sarath were leaps and bounds more interesting than she was, but even in Sarath’s character, I feel like we didn’t get much chance to know him. He was kind of mysterious in the beginning, and I feel like we never really got to know enough about him, unlike with Gamini, who got a whole section dedicated (basically) to his backstory.
The ending was... less than satisfying. It seemed rushed and, honestly, I feel like it was just blah (for lack of better words. I seriously do not know how to properly articulate how boring this book was).
I have to give the author credit for some absolutely beautifully written prose in certain parts of the novel. But even that was few and far between.
Overall, I think the story was just flat. The whole Sailor plot line was rushed to a conclusion and there was literally no character growth in majority of the characters. I don’t even know what I just read. It all felt pointless.
I found the writing to be very choppy and disjointed, and I don’t care if that was an artistic choice, it made it extremely hard for me to follow the story. There also seemed to be a lot of (unimportant) info dumping. I just couldn’t get myself to really care about the plot, nor most of the characters.
Anil was... bland. Her character was flat. She had little to no character arc. She was boring. I’m not sure if this is just a case of “men writing women,” cause it very well might be, but goodness gracious, I couldn’t care less about her.
Gamini and Sarath were leaps and bounds more interesting than she was, but even in Sarath’s character, I feel like we didn’t get much chance to know him. He was kind of mysterious in the beginning, and I feel like we never really got to know enough about him, unlike with Gamini, who got a whole section dedicated (basically) to his backstory.
The ending was... less than satisfying. It seemed rushed and, honestly, I feel like it was just blah (for lack of better words. I seriously do not know how to properly articulate how boring this book was).
I have to give the author credit for some absolutely beautifully written prose in certain parts of the novel. But even that was few and far between.
Overall, I think the story was just flat. The whole Sailor plot line was rushed to a conclusion and there was literally no character growth in majority of the characters. I don’t even know what I just read. It all felt pointless.