Katherine Min (1959–2019)
Autore di Secondhand World
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Joyce Ravid
Opere di Katherine Min
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1959-03-16
- Data di morte
- 2019-03-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Illinois, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 164
- Popolarità
- #129,117
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 6
- Lingue
- 1
The story follows Daniel, who is a narcissist and has a fetish of Asian women. He views women strictly as sexual objects to be conquered and then moves on to the next. He is incapable of being faithful to one woman, and even acknowledges this fact. I don’t need the protagonist of the novel to be likeable, and Daniel certainly was not likeable, but at least I need to have an interest in them. I had no interest in Daniel, Kyoko, or any other character in this novel.
The book contained too many characters. Every insignificant person was named. Even in the final chapter many new characters were introduced. This was overkill. The book also spent too much space on flashbacks and reminiscing. It was unnecessary backfill that slowed the story down. Therefore, the book was too long. It comes in at about 280 pages, but would have worked better as a 200 page (or less) novella.
The plot is all over the place. We are following Daniel in the present time in one chapter, a different character in a different time in the next, then back to Daniel in the past. It was difficult trying to follow the timeline. The author’s daughter assembled the novel from various disconnected files and drafts on her mother’s computer, and it appears some must be missing and she put the files in the wrong order. The book makes no chronological sense.
The author attempted to interject humor in the book, especially in the character of Daniel, but it failed miserably. Daniel was not in the least bit funny, despite the author’s attempts to make him come across as humorous.
The ending was incomplete. There is no resolution to many plot lines Perhaps there is another file on the author’s computer that her daughter failed to discover. The editor should have realized this fact. The book ends in a most ridiculous manner with loose ends all over the place.
I was terribly disappointed in the book. It does not even deserve a one-star rating.
I am sorry I wasted my time reading this book.… (altro)