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A review by pfwhitman
Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Miss Lonely Hearts
Maybe it's just not my style of writing or topic but I didn't really enjoy this. It's about a love column writer in the '30s who realizes his job has ruined him and tries anything to feel something.
Day of the Locust
Starting slow, I came to like it more and more and found it to be a really great read. A look into early 30s Hollywood and the vagrants that filled the city and everyone else who fled to a California that only exists in their dreams.
"Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they've been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing."
Maybe it's just not my style of writing or topic but I didn't really enjoy this. It's about a love column writer in the '30s who realizes his job has ruined him and tries anything to feel something.
Day of the Locust
Starting slow, I came to like it more and more and found it to be a really great read. A look into early 30s Hollywood and the vagrants that filled the city and everyone else who fled to a California that only exists in their dreams.
"Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they've been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing."