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It does what it does well and not much else. Not a great way to explain it but if you read it you will understand. We follow the exceptionally uneventful life of Willie as he tries to discover himself and find a path to walk down. I found him to be spineless and became quite bored watching him float through life being led by his lust most of the time like so many male characters in so many other(better written) books. But then, the language reflects his life, nothing much exciting going on. Having at this time not read any other VS Naipaul I鈥檓 not sure if the straightforward prose is specific to this book or just how he writes, but at times it felt like it was written by a teenager. But as mentioned this matches the dull life of the main character. He marries the first woman to show him attention and I thought something was due to happen when they moved to Africa as the country went through some big changes as he lived there but these things seemed to happen on the outside and didn鈥檛 affect his life very much, he was too busy being led on by his crotch to notice much else. The life of his sister sounded a much better story and she seemed a better character but then the book would have been something completely different. Willie does live a 鈥榟alf life鈥� but it鈥檚 his own doing due to just floating through it with no direction or focus. Eventually he realizes that his life has been a waste of time but by then it鈥檚 too late. I鈥檒l let you read something else and give you the main message; live your life now before it鈥檚 too late.

From the inside cover 鈥樷€ devastating work of exceptional sensitivity鈥︹€� not sure who stayed up all night writing that but I was not devastated in the slightest.

At the end of the day there are better books about the struggle to find a 鈥榩urpose鈥� in one鈥檚 life.