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If it were not for the first 50% of this more or less being a normal book (and an interesting one, too!), I would have given this 1 star. The first 50% - 4 stars, the last - 0 to 1. Perhaps I just don't get Russian literature. What's wrong with having an actual narrative? What's with this need to make everything absurd to get whatever obscure point you're interested in across? (I didn't get the point, AT ALL.) There's an obnoxious drunk (again Russia, what's with the unlikeable main characters?), a fat and loved man of activity, an idealized New Man, an uninteresting girl that gets as much substance as the New Man (she's just something all the men seem to want to possess because she's young and pretty, almost a child in her pink dress, blablabla), an old widow who actually gets some (plus the obligatory beating), etc, and the machine and the stolovaja or whatever it is. Chaos.
In order to have any clue what this was all about (except for the envy, that's pretty self-explanatory), I'd probably need a week of daily classes picking the story apart. Not so sure I'd be interested though.
In order to have any clue what this was all about (except for the envy, that's pretty self-explanatory), I'd probably need a week of daily classes picking the story apart. Not so sure I'd be interested though.
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Reading Progress
May 8, 2013
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Started Reading
May 8, 2013
– Shelved
May 14, 2013
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70.0%
May 21, 2013
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85.0%
"The crap this book turned into has me so annoyed I'm not sure how I'm supposed to finish this."
May 22, 2013
– Shelved as:
read_in_russian
May 22, 2013
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Finished Reading
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Aug 10, 2015 06:16PM
either you see yourself in it or you see nothing and nothing makes sense. This is not for girls unless they someway can empathize.
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Constantine wrote: "either you see yourself in it or you see nothing and nothing makes sense. This is not for girls unless they someway can empathize."What does chaos and messy narrative have to do with gender?
It's less of a chaos if it replicates one's thought process. orphelia parts, I agree, are confusing.
I agree with you Rebecka. The first 50% was very enjoyable and the rest seemed to me like a confusing and boring mess. I kept on reading only because I hoped that it somewhere would turn back to what it was.
