A review by antij
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D. Ouspensky

2.0

I find it hard to like a character who sees all the mistakes he's going to make and then makes them anyway, then complain about his mistakes but instead of doing anything about them just shrug his hands and decide he can't do anything about it. The story really didn't need to go 200 pages to make this point. About 20 pages in and I think most people will have gotten the author's thesis statement. It was hard not to see a devious nature in a character at the end, though I imagine it wasn't intended to read him this way as it might have actually made things interesting.