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fueschgast
18 January 2013 @ 01:13 am
Started reading The Casual Vacancy.  
And so far I don't like it. While Jo's detailed writing is nice, it's not nice here. So this teenager wanks thinking about another teenager. Cool story, bro - why should I care?! And so many unlikable characters, my god. If I turned the page and found the words "rocks fell, everyone died" there, my reaction would be "Thank fuck!". So far I fail to relate to the people, story, anything. It's a fucking dystopia. If I wanted to feel like shit, I'd stop taking my antidepressants. ...Not that taking them guarantees that I won't feel like shit (I mean, I cried over not getting the coffee machine working today!).
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(no subject) - (Anonymous) on January 9th, 2017 02:52 am (UTC)
fueschgast[personal profile] fueschgast on January 25th, 2013 09:27 pm (UTC)
I was to curious to stop reading. Which was a good thing, because I found out that - despite its many unlikeable characters - it's actually a good book. I just shouldn't read it when I'm feeling depressed.

Do you really mean Sukhvinder or maybe Parminder? Because Sukhvinder doesn't play a very big role so far.
http://the-silverdoe.livejournal.com/: {Sh} ++ Going nowhere[identity profile] the-silverdoe.livejournal.com on January 18th, 2013 10:39 am (UTC)
I think I started really enjoying the book when I got to the half/the two thirds of it. And then in retrospect I kept a positive feeling about the whole book, but it took me a while to get there... There's a lot of depressing stuff, and I agree that most characters aren't likable (I went 'okay, can it get better now?' at some point), or I started liking them in the last 150 pages. But it's 'my kind' of book in the first place, so I kept reading. If you really hate it or it makes you feel bad, I agree with keep_counting, you should stop.
fueschgast[personal profile] fueschgast on January 25th, 2013 09:30 pm (UTC)
I started to enjoy it when I wasn't having a bad day (my god, that depression can influence book enjoyment so much :o/) and when it got to Olden Days. Finally I knew what these people's beef is about.