Whether I liked the
book 'Girl in Landscape' by Jonathan Lethem is irrelevant but I will say I did
not with the writing being dull to read for the most part.
There, that's all
that needed to be said on my opinion.
Getting to my
experience on the book is a bit more hit and miss. I couldn't read the book in
one sitting as I found myself reading pages over again to see what I might have
skimmed over the first time. As a relatively fast reader I'm guilty of reading
probably at minimum every other word in a story often skipping sentences in my
haste. In this story its impossible to do so because skipping a sentence makes
the next feel odd to read. It doesn't flow with the book like it should result
in me having to reread it all over again, this time slower. It's an exhausting
process and I just couldn't urge myself to finish the book in one go.
It was probably this
constant need to repeatedly go to the library to pick up the book again that
made the already slow pace drag out longer. The seemingly careless, throwaway
dialogue at the beginning doesn't help as it provided the backgrounds of the
characters and the world at a tooth pulling pace. To be honest when I read the
back cover, knowing full well at the end the mother was going to die, I was
expecting it to be much sooner. Instead it takes two chapters. Two very long
chapters.
The rest of the book
goes about along the same pace. There are parts where I'm generally interested
in what’s going on Pella being sensibly girl at only 13. And then there are
times where she seems almost freakishly mature. It’s rather off-putting how
easily she can handle things becoming another thing I have to read back a few
paragraphs just to make sure I read her actions right and that’s what she was really
doing.
Nothing really caught
my attention besides the idea of accumulation they talk about through out the
book. The need to change to adapt to the environment is a very weird then but
in the book it feels like something more. It was one of the few things that
kept me going thought the book to see how this 13 year old and the people
around her react to this new place and people.
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