Sreevatsa's review
The Line of Beauty: A Novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
Sreevatsa's review
The Line of Beauty: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst
Sreevatsa's review
rating:
Read this book to appreciate the writer's unparalleled mastery of the language and an enviable genius that he possesses at getting across his fiery dazzling display of ideas. His expression is exceedingly rich, thick and creamy like a sizeable chunk of delectable chocolate cake that you shovel into your mouth and allow it to tease and tantalise those tastebuds before it iniquitously melts away into the obcurity of your mouth leaving you quarter-miffed and three-quarters craving more.
Be that as it may, the book sags and crawls ponderously for the most part under its own stodgy weight making it pointless and vapid. The plot is found grossly wanting in humour and wherever there seems to exist a suggestion of it, it is perceived as either unimpressively wry or inconsequentially droll.
Perhaps the most painfully striking feature of the narrative is its disjointedness which makes the reader very restive as if to want to somehow quickly piece together the disparate components of a see...more
Be that as it may, the book sags and crawls ponderously for the most part under its own stodgy weight making it pointless and vapid. The plot is found grossly wanting in humour and wherever there seems to exist a suggestion of it, it is perceived as either unimpressively wry or inconsequentially droll.
Perhaps the most painfully striking feature of the narrative is its disjointedness which makes the reader very restive as if to want to somehow quickly piece together the disparate components of a see...more
