So I’m at 70% mark and man I can take this book for not even a second more. Its just so god damn boring. The story could have been taken in so many interesting directions.
The potential was there but basically nothing of much excitement and engagement happens in the narrative as it unfolds.
The pages revolve around the mundane, day to day or moment to moment happenings and interactions between characters that tend to have little to no bearing to the main plot of this book.
Now if that particular element is present to a reasonable extent in a story to lend it some texture, imbue a sense that its characters behave in a manner that is – and therefore are – more human-like then it doesn’t feel bothersome.
But here for whatever reason you found overabundance of it. It became tedious and torturous.
The only good thing i can say about this book is that at times how its sentences are written feels good to read. The command of the English language of the author can most certainly never be brought in to question.
But in terms of the power of its story to captivate, enthrall and satisfy it resoundingly failed in my estimation.
by stallion214
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The Secret History is one of those rare books that I struggled to get through yet somehow loved all the same.
That’s how I felt about the Goldfinch. It was three lifetimes long I swear
You either love her work or hate it.
This book was so dull, but still managed to fill me with a constant low-level drone of anxiety and dread. I regret reading it because I was bored but also anxious.
I love her prose but can’t stand the pacing and almost zero plot. I got half way through The Little Friend and gave up and then read a plot synopsis and never felt more vindicated in my life.
I dnf ed it tok but in the first 100 pages ir si. i found it horrible and weird bc if the cult