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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While I am an adult and could’ve stopped reading at any time, I was morbidly curious to know if this was going to get better. I don’t think it did. I read Part 1 thinking it was the setup for Part 2 but that was more of the same drunk and drug addled ranting. I thought I saw a ray of light in chapter 13 but no, just more drugs. This was a quasi coherent fever dream that happened to be put on paper. Maybe cause I don’t take drugs?? this whole book was lost on me. I SUFFERED.
But, I can say it’s done.
But, I can say it’s done.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Realized I have free will and could stop reading a book I didn’t like.
This felt like a curb your enthusiasm episode but not as funny so just slightly disappointing.
Maybe I'm just sick of hearing about America
Maybe I'm just sick of hearing about America
fast-paced
Good god this book made me feel like I was the one doing all the drugs. Glad to have read it, but will likely never read it again
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A solid novel, depraved, bleak, funny, profound, one of the great American novels. It hits differently, of course, now that I am older and somewhat wiser than the last time I read this well over a decade ago. Still, it's a quick, jaunting read that has a lot to say about the nature of a lifestyle that maybe at one point was in vogue and no longer is, but also of a time and chance, an opprotunity to discover the beating heart of America and see it for what it is. For my part, I'm not sure Thompson discovered it, or discovers it at least in this novel, but he does find something else. Expression, and a voice that needed to be heard. He turned a simply task into a herculean feat and for what it is worth, he touches a nerve and finds something even if it isn't exactly The American Dream. But maybe that's where I see it from my vantage point of 2022, when Nixon is a long since faded memory for many, and that we may have come to see far, far worse and a side of America that remained dormant and hidden for such a very, very, long time has come to be prominent in our culture since then. Regardless, the book is powerful and I'm on the side of Cormac McCarthy in calling it a classic and great work.
