I read "A Voyage to Arcturus" three or four times, and I still don't know what to think about. The main character, "Maskull", seems to have no "free will" at all – or maybe he's just a sociopath, considering he betrays, kills, and basically only thinks about himself the whole book…
Somehow, for me, it's like things "just happen" in the book – I don't feel any sense of "continuity" and it seems the main character is just "on for a ride"… I don't know if it's because the book is indeed confusing, or because English is my second language, or something else, but the explanations of anything that happen don't convince me, or I feel they are incomplete (sometimes it seems like some characters just… die… because they die, without any actual reason or explanation, and a lot of characters die in that book).
It's, for me, an incredibly frustrating book because somehow I feel (or maybe I want to feel) that there's some deeper lore into the book, but I just… don't get it. Does someone else feels the same?
by mauricioszabo