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david
How was this shortlisted?
2017年10月4日に英国でレビュー済み
I'm amazed this was shortlisted for the Booker. It is an interesting idea with lots of potential, but the protagonists are crudely drawn and never feel like real people, and the refuge portals concept didn't seem to be fully explored leaving the plot to feel clunky and underdeveloped. At times it genuinely felt like reading a first draft. I've read most of the books on the longlist and to my mind this was the worst.
10人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
Nadeem Khawaja
Now impressed
2018年1月5日に英国でレビュー済み
A climb down from his first book. Did not make clear the metaphors of ‘doors’ opening into a he distant lands.
DHD
I give it a big shrug.
2018年3月18日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
I expected something powerful that would sear itself into my heart. Instead I got a story involving two people who never seemed to connect emotionally or physically. I couldn’t identify with either of them. I think they were suppose to be us, but they just weren’t. Trying to live in the midst of war, displacement, being an oppressed migrant, trying to survive in chaos are big themes, but the characters seem little and not particularly believable. Unfortunately the author undercuts his narrative by having the characters walk through doors when he wants a change of scene. That’s it, doors. No journeys or interesting transitions, doors. I wish it had either been a straightforward narrative or majestic magic realism, but Exit West pulls its punches and is a wishywashy in between.
24人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
Patricia P. Taylor
My Recommendation? Avoid!
2019年4月23日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
It tells us something that a novel as heralded as this one is one of the dullest books I’ve ever read. I am reminded of Mark Twain’s comment about reading Nietzche: “I read three pages looking for a verb.” You will get the same experience reading Exit West. While the topic of displaced persons is timely, there is no excuse for one-dimensional, static characters and entire chapters with little or no dialogue. Without characters’ own words, how are we to relate or sympathize with them? Page after page of repetitive, depressing descriptions with no resolution in sight left me in ill temper and very frustrated with the person in my book club who recommended this mess.
6人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
celestial blue
a presumptuous, easy-exit novel
2020年9月27日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
I read this for my book club and could barely get through for wanting to throw it against a wall. This is allegedly about experiences of people forced to migrate, but the one defining feature of migration -- that there is a deliberate and often very challenging struggle to move from one place to another -- is just left out. In each chapter, the people who need to leave from one place and arrive at another simply walk through a magical black door, and magically arrive. The characters are initially believable, but under such magical circumstances, small wonder they soon become two-dimensional caricatures. If this is what the Booker Prize judges consider worthy of their prize, remind me not to buy any Booker Prize finalists in the future. I'd give this book 1 star, but the saving grace is that the writing is sometimes poetic, even if the stories are incoherent.
1人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
FaithOryx
A Book Club Review of Exit West
2018年4月30日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
This is a book club review of Exit West. This was our book club's 59th read. We rate books on the discussion the book prompts, likability, readability, and games/themes. Overall, this book came out rated at a 5 on an average of ten, coming in roughly just over average in our rating scale. The lower rating was mostly based on the difficult readability of the book, the writing style of the author, and the limited perspective of characters that resulted in stilted discussion.
At least two members of the book club found the prose to be deep and inspiring, and loved the book. However, the majority of our book club (six members) did not like the use of a literary license on the prose. The author chooses to write long run-on paragraphs that can go for a page or more, with fragmented thoughts separated by commas. Although two members enjoyed this creative use of prose, most of the members found it to be distracting, annoying, and difficult to read.
The subject matter was inspiring to at least two members, while most members thought there were better reads available on refugees. Most people had a hard time relating to the book and the characters. There's very little dialogue in the book, very few actual developed characters, and the two main characters are complete opposites - with one predictably taking an adventurous/independent stance and one taking a nostalgic/religious/conservative stance at each interval, which felt like a cliche at times. The limited viewpoint on perspective resulted in a lot of discussion that was a comparison of the two characters or life choices - i.e,. him vs. her or conservative vs. liberal. This stilted conversation was limiting and frustrating. Further, the fantasy/creative element of the doors was appealing to only one member, who thought it was an interesting metaphor. Other members felt like the concept wasn't explained or didn't match the book, which otherwise had no fantasy element. We appreciated that the story was about the humans after fleeing (not about the journey) but we weren't sure it was effective.
The discussion was surprisingly limited consider the expensive, broad, and deep subject matter. The result of the rating was that, overall, this was not a bad book by any means. It's just that we thought it was very average. It was not heavily disliked or liked, just sort of neutral. On the plus side, there were many beautiful quotes and thoughts and ideas and plenty of us had highlighted passages that were worthy of noting and reading aloud. However, oddly, these passages did not stimulate great discussion. Several members related this book to The Alchemist, which may give you an idea of the type of prose and travel found within the book. That could be a plus to many! And perhaps this is just one of those books that may work best for the independent reader instead of a book club environment.
At least two members of the book club found the prose to be deep and inspiring, and loved the book. However, the majority of our book club (six members) did not like the use of a literary license on the prose. The author chooses to write long run-on paragraphs that can go for a page or more, with fragmented thoughts separated by commas. Although two members enjoyed this creative use of prose, most of the members found it to be distracting, annoying, and difficult to read.
The subject matter was inspiring to at least two members, while most members thought there were better reads available on refugees. Most people had a hard time relating to the book and the characters. There's very little dialogue in the book, very few actual developed characters, and the two main characters are complete opposites - with one predictably taking an adventurous/independent stance and one taking a nostalgic/religious/conservative stance at each interval, which felt like a cliche at times. The limited viewpoint on perspective resulted in a lot of discussion that was a comparison of the two characters or life choices - i.e,. him vs. her or conservative vs. liberal. This stilted conversation was limiting and frustrating. Further, the fantasy/creative element of the doors was appealing to only one member, who thought it was an interesting metaphor. Other members felt like the concept wasn't explained or didn't match the book, which otherwise had no fantasy element. We appreciated that the story was about the humans after fleeing (not about the journey) but we weren't sure it was effective.
The discussion was surprisingly limited consider the expensive, broad, and deep subject matter. The result of the rating was that, overall, this was not a bad book by any means. It's just that we thought it was very average. It was not heavily disliked or liked, just sort of neutral. On the plus side, there were many beautiful quotes and thoughts and ideas and plenty of us had highlighted passages that were worthy of noting and reading aloud. However, oddly, these passages did not stimulate great discussion. Several members related this book to The Alchemist, which may give you an idea of the type of prose and travel found within the book. That could be a plus to many! And perhaps this is just one of those books that may work best for the independent reader instead of a book club environment.
12人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
Weaslgrl
Left me cold
2018年9月6日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
I don’t really know what to say about this book. I suspect the critical love comes more from the subject (plight of refugees) than from the execution. Glimpses of greatness in certain passages, describing the shift of refugee emotions over time. It seemed to be as much about the arc of a relationship as it was about the refugee experiences, but both were shallowly treated & the bits of magical realism were perplexing and added nothing. Overall, it left me cold.
3人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
MillyMaker
Over My Head
2017年10月8日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
I feel like the point of this book, the k lesson of this book was just over my head. Or maybe, I did get it and just feel nothing about it. Suffice to say, I didn't care for this book. I hated the style of writing. I found it jarring and hard to connect with. The intermittent random asides seemed mostly pointless. It is not a book I would necessarily recommend to anyone.
7人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
Peter Lawrence Leepson
I found the book to be barely ok. The ...
2018年3月22日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
I found the book to be barely ok. The story centers on two people from one of the war torn areas who escape and attempt to find a permanent home. The author never tells you what country they are from and how they escaped from one country to the next and this, I found to be distracting. Further the author does know a period from a sentence. His sentences go on and on' sometimes more than one page. I really did not care for this book and gave it more than one star because of the books acclaim.
2人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
Kindle Customer
Who are these people?
2019年5月14日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
The main characters were so bland and uninteresting. I could fine nothing in their actions or behavior to invoke sympathy or interest. I realize the author's intent was to link the message in the book to the refugees in so many parts of the world. Perhaps he should have lived with more of these refugees for a few days or weeks before trying to inject their pain into these self-serving characters.
