Ave's review
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
Ave's review
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Ave's review
rating:
Even knowing and understanding what the book was about I can not find the words to describe it. I remember almoust every single moment of the book. Descriptions, happenings the roads that people took, and where they ended up. But i don't know how to start telling about it.
There was one particular thing about this book i found fasinating and it was the fact that reading it felt as if I was reading a really long poem. It always felt like that whenever i had a pause in the times between i read the chapters, whenever i started again i felt i was continuing reading this poem. It's just the style of Okri. The way he could take this one sentence and make it enchanting. The words just flowed and it was a magnificent experience. At the same time when using that style he was able to really bring out the hard, terrible parts of the books. How something bad could be described with such pretty words. It was most of the time terrible. But i found it puzzeling too. And i think by doing that he wa...more
There was one particular thing about this book i found fasinating and it was the fact that reading it felt as if I was reading a really long poem. It always felt like that whenever i had a pause in the times between i read the chapters, whenever i started again i felt i was continuing reading this poem. It's just the style of Okri. The way he could take this one sentence and make it enchanting. The words just flowed and it was a magnificent experience. At the same time when using that style he was able to really bring out the hard, terrible parts of the books. How something bad could be described with such pretty words. It was most of the time terrible. But i found it puzzeling too. And i think by doing that he wa...more
