I was expecting better....
3 stars
This is another one of those stories I've had on my TBR list for a long time. Since the movie came out, actually -- although I've not seen the movie.
It was okay. A good story, and pretty absurd (which was the point), but I feel like it could've been better. Maybe if we'd heard a bit more about Benjamin's mom, for example... Although maybe she died in childbirth; we're not told. For that matter, what must it have been like to give birth to a fully grown man?
Sure, in the time in which this story was set, we don't really worry too much about what women think, and we certainly don't talk about things like childbirth in great detail, but still. There are other women in this story who got quite important roles. Why not Benjamin's mother?
This story raises more questions than it answers... but again, that's …
This is another one of those stories I've had on my TBR list for a long time. Since the movie came out, actually -- although I've not seen the movie.
It was okay. A good story, and pretty absurd (which was the point), but I feel like it could've been better. Maybe if we'd heard a bit more about Benjamin's mom, for example... Although maybe she died in childbirth; we're not told. For that matter, what must it have been like to give birth to a fully grown man?
Sure, in the time in which this story was set, we don't really worry too much about what women think, and we certainly don't talk about things like childbirth in great detail, but still. There are other women in this story who got quite important roles. Why not Benjamin's mother?
This story raises more questions than it answers... but again, that's probably the point.
Also the ebook I read wasn't very well edited. I kept seeing line breaks in the middle of sentences, and weird punctuation. Maybe it was OCRed from the print version, and that's why.
I should point out, however, that this is the very first work I've ever read by this author. I've never read The Great Gatsby either.
