Reviews

Heartland by Wilson Harris

jz_reads's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

there's a guy with a boat by the river and he's also in a forest and he ruminates a lot about life in these atrociously long run-on sentences that make me want to take seventeen Xanax pills and oh my god I'm already asleep because this book has bored me to death.

annaabgaryan's review against another edition

1.0

another terrible assigned reading.

br3nd4n's review

1.0

Perhaps the only thing more impenetrable than the Guyanese jungle of which Harris writes is his prose. His writing has been described as enigmatic and visionary, but I found it dense, long-winded and frankly, pretentious. I actually think he was trying to write a South American Heart of Darkness (no, really). If so, it’s not altogether unsuccessful, but the pages are just so laboured with the most extraordinary sentences that serve to obfuscate more than illuminate (a bit like this one). I probably ought to read Heartland again, but no - life’s too short. Some books are neglected for a reason.
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