Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 25, 2024 11:21:45 GMT
The Blind Assassin (2000)
1st time with this author, had high hopes. Good reviews.
She has a fantastically economical style of prose but I gave the fuck up after 30 pages. Horribly pretentious structure for a novel. Basically starting a new novel every 4 pages. Then a massive flex of her imagination with swathes of descriptive fantasy that I skipped right the fuck past.
30 pages in and zero idea wft is going on in the "story" + the 2 characters I can recall only seemed to exist in a photo. Bish, its too hot to expect me to follow along with your giddy mental gymnastics, don't make me work this hard.
1/10
1st time with this author, had high hopes. Good reviews.
She has a fantastically economical style of prose but I gave the fuck up after 30 pages. Horribly pretentious structure for a novel. Basically starting a new novel every 4 pages. Then a massive flex of her imagination with swathes of descriptive fantasy that I skipped right the fuck past.
30 pages in and zero idea wft is going on in the "story" + the 2 characters I can recall only seemed to exist in a photo. Bish, its too hot to expect me to follow along with your giddy mental gymnastics, don't make me work this hard.
1/10