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59) "The Book of Ruth" - Jane Hamilton a link to the amazon reviews
This is the story of a miserable life begat by a miserable life. In the end I got the point of putting me, the reader, through all that misery. But I still wished she could have taken less time about it. Yes, there was some... hint of possibility of redemption at the end. I think it was unfair of publishers weekly to say that others seen by the main character are 'incompletely rendered.' Any time you choose to do a whole story from one viewpoint there's going to have to be incompleteness, because each of us only ever knows the inside of our own head, we can't know what goes on in other people's. And I think that's one of the points of this book. The main character gets hints of other people's complexity.
60) "The Chronicles of Clovis" - Saki
There's not enough Clovis in this. :)
This is the story of a miserable life begat by a miserable life. In the end I got the point of putting me, the reader, through all that misery. But I still wished she could have taken less time about it. Yes, there was some... hint of possibility of redemption at the end. I think it was unfair of publishers weekly to say that others seen by the main character are 'incompletely rendered.' Any time you choose to do a whole story from one viewpoint there's going to have to be incompleteness, because each of us only ever knows the inside of our own head, we can't know what goes on in other people's. And I think that's one of the points of this book. The main character gets hints of other people's complexity.
60) "The Chronicles of Clovis" - Saki
There's not enough Clovis in this. :)