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A review by literally_laura
The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
3.0
This story is narrated by someone to which the story was told by the main character. I knew I was really in for a tough read the first time there narrator said (at length) "You had to be there to understand."
O'Malley is a man who does not fit in with the world. He feels a yearning to some Utopian past that he has difficulty describing. This yearning takes him all over to world in search of his peace. He meets a man traveling with a young boy. Instantly upon seeing them, he feels a kinship and understanding he did not know existed. He explores these feelings and the implications of them at length and it great unnecessary detail.
This book deals with some lofty and interesting ideas. In trying to explain these ideas to people who cannot possibly understand- mere mortals that we are- it drones on and becomes boring. There is much potential in the story itself if only the author allowed the reader to feel for ourselves instead of trying to verbally beat us into the exact feelings he wants us to have.
O'Malley is a man who does not fit in with the world. He feels a yearning to some Utopian past that he has difficulty describing. This yearning takes him all over to world in search of his peace. He meets a man traveling with a young boy. Instantly upon seeing them, he feels a kinship and understanding he did not know existed. He explores these feelings and the implications of them at length and it great unnecessary detail.
This book deals with some lofty and interesting ideas. In trying to explain these ideas to people who cannot possibly understand- mere mortals that we are- it drones on and becomes boring. There is much potential in the story itself if only the author allowed the reader to feel for ourselves instead of trying to verbally beat us into the exact feelings he wants us to have.