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Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Sophie's Choice
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781556589430 (1556589433)
Publisher: Live Home Video
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
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All about me
All about me rated it
5.0 Sophie's Choice
A very moving and intense story. Styron appears to break the rules (much like Elena Ferrante) in that he tells rather than shows. And parts of the story had a 'stream of consciousness' feel to it. But it all worked. It's not a light read, but quite dense. It's also not a novel that you can easily kn...
hippieed perceptions
hippieed perceptions rated it
1.5
Well, I finished it. And I despised every moment of it, from the writing to the characters. Maybe I just don't understand or appreciate a writing style such as Styron's, but I just found it incredibly tedious and tiresome to wade through all of Stingo's incessant (and lust-fueled) rambling. I hat...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it
4.0 Sophie's Choice
Sophie's choice is about a young writers initiation into sex, a doomed romance and the holocaust experience of a polish woman named Sophie. These three threads are woven together quite well. I found the writers story the least interesting and the most interesting is the holocaust part of the book,...
The House That Books Built
The House That Books Built rated it
1.0 Sophie's Choice
I got half, maybe two thirds of the way through this before I did what I really hate to do and gave up..I just couldn't be bothered.. I can't help thinking that if I had read this in my youth I would have found the tempestuous love affair between Nathan and Sophie highly romantic, and the constant s...
June's Room
June's Room rated it
1.0 Sophie's Choice
I got half, maybe two thirds of the way through this before I did what I really hate to do and gave up..I just couldn't be bothered.. I can't help thinking that if I had read this in my youth I would have found the tempestuous love affair between Nathan and Sophie highly romantic, and the constant s...
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