I don’t really like The Revenant so far.

I stated before, to my friends, that the book was good but now I just don’t really like it.

First of all, this book REALLY likes pushing into your face PRECISELY what the characters are thinking, their thoughts, their flaws, their history, literally everything about them. It’s like Moby Dick but in Moby Dick that actually made sense. Here it just reads as the book desperately to shove everything along. I actually ended up skipping the entirety of John Fitzgeralds “history”, only to reread it at a later date.

Why?

It added fuckall. I just wanted to know what was going on in the current scene. If it was REALLY that important that me, the reader, needed to know that Fitzgerald stabbed a prostitute to death, then reveal it in dialogue slowly. Build his character. Instead it’s just shoved in because OOOOH boy we gotta make Fitzgerald look like the absolute pinnacle of fucking evil, so let’s say he stabbed his classmate with a pencil. Why did he do that? Fuck you, the author says.

The prose itself is dry, I’m sorry. This reads like one of my old classmates attempt at creative writing. It’s just so overly descriptive at one point and so bland on another. It’s not consistent AT ALL! But I will admit that I did just finish Suttree so my expectations were a bit too high.

The only character I have joy reading is Fitzgerald. He’s interesting, a dickhead, and the only character that does something DIFFERENT and is admittedly intelligent. The rest are so BLAND and uninteresting.

I will state I haven’t finshed the book yet but I really hope it does something. I don’t even care that much about Glass anymore.

5.5/10 so far.

by EmilyIsNotALesbian