A review by alex2739
Fima by Amos Oz
Such a frustrating read.
When I picked it up I thought the writer was going to elaborate a lot more on politics, religion, people and their different perspectives on various matters, culture or something along those lines. But what I got was a problematic and very immature main character that he always said "that's my problem" but not even once did he do anything at all to find a solution, he wanted to seem complex and that he did something wih his beliefs but once again nothing happened, you are not a poet for having published once in your lifetime a collection of poems, a lot of tmi about his thingy that actually nobody asked for, his problematic relationships with women (in this novel as far as my interpretation is concerned, they were viewed as objects for pleasure and nothing else), (spoiler but) wtf the kids killed a dog??!, the wife told you to leave her new family alone and you just?? did not even? listen to her? -not going to use the word 'understand' because it's pointless-, his father was right that he needed to try and do something with his life (and that something doesn't even have to be remarkable: for example clean his freaking place or was that -not- skilfully created by the author to have that metaphor with the cockroach?
Painful to read in my opinion.
When I picked it up I thought the writer was going to elaborate a lot more on politics, religion, people and their different perspectives on various matters, culture or something along those lines. But what I got was a problematic and very immature main character that he always said "that's my problem" but not even once did he do anything at all to find a solution, he wanted to seem complex and that he did something wih his beliefs but once again nothing happened, you are not a poet for having published once in your lifetime a collection of poems, a lot of tmi about his thingy that actually nobody asked for, his problematic relationships with women (in this novel as far as my interpretation is concerned, they were viewed as objects for pleasure and nothing else), (spoiler but) wtf the kids killed a dog??!, the wife told you to leave her new family alone and you just?? did not even? listen to her? -not going to use the word 'understand' because it's pointless-, his father was right that he needed to try and do something with his life (and that something doesn't even have to be remarkable: for example clean his freaking place or was that -not- skilfully created by the author to have that metaphor with the cockroach?
Painful to read in my opinion.