Beloved: Reflection

And so another story concludes. Was it a good story? Yeah. Was it interesting? Kinda. Was it easy to read? That's a big ol' "no". Never before have I been relieved to finally finish a book. Honestly, the finishing of this book didn't really even work to satisfy this feeling I had that I spet an enormous amount of time simply reading this book. Heck, it took me twice as long to read a page out of this book than it normally would. Not only that, I probably re-read half of it. In fact, its readability contrasted so much from The Road that it felt like I had been reading this book since the beginning of the semester. There were, however, some good things. For one, I really liked the subject matter of the story. For some reason, I have always enjoyed stories about slaves and their hand-crafted tales of gaining freedom. While this story still dealt subtly with this aspect, it also incoporated an intense set of varied themes. In addition, I also liked the language that was used. While sometimes difficult to comprehend, the poetic and sing-song nature of speech within this story makes for an engaging read. All in all, I can't say that I particularly enjoyed how this story was told, but I definetly enjoyed what it dealt with.