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A review by tayloreve07
Possession by A.S. Byatt
All right. So. This book took me forever to finish because I kept setting it down and not being particularly inclined to pick it back up again. It's not that it was bad, just that it was . . . meh?
The idea was a good one, but it just wasn't done in a very interesting way. The whole thing felt very contrived. And the ending was far too neat and tidy. Also, the amount of poems that were dispersed throughout made it slower going for me, even with my vow to make myself like poetry. In addition, the absolute misogyny of many of the characters made it difficult to read sometimes (like can we please stop bashing feminism and feminist literary theory? Thanks). All in all, I don't regret the time I spent reading it, but it's certainly not going on the favorites list.
The idea was a good one, but it just wasn't done in a very interesting way. The whole thing felt very contrived. And the ending was far too neat and tidy. Also, the amount of poems that were dispersed throughout made it slower going for me, even with my vow to make myself like poetry. In addition, the absolute misogyny of many of the characters made it difficult to read sometimes (like can we please stop bashing feminism and feminist literary theory? Thanks). All in all, I don't regret the time I spent reading it, but it's certainly not going on the favorites list.