Book Review: Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

[simply_shipping]

Title: Sunset Song (A Scots Quair #1)
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (pseudonym for James Leslie Mitchell)
Pagecount: 248 (paperback)
Publisher: Polygon
Publishing date: April 9, 2006 (original published 1932)
Goodreads rating mean: 3.98 (161 ratings)
Goodreads rating mode: 5 (39%)
Goodreads rating median: 4
Publisher's summary: 'Oh, she hated and

Comments

[jih68]

Well this is the last time I will comment - but hopefully this will be helpful for you. You may at some point in your personal journey consider why somebody might go out of their way to 'flame' you. Think about this - you have gone to the considerable extent of reviewing a book on a public forum which suggests that you consider yourself to have wisdom worthy of such a platform. Yest - its a book that you dont even like - which implies that you have far too much time on your hands or that you believe that you have genuinely significant value to add. You offer opinion on what is widely considered to be a masterpiece - but you miss most, if not all, of the monumental themes to focus on your own prissy little personal reaction to some of the impressionistic incidents. So the blood and energy that gibbons pours into this novel, the poetry and imagery he conjurs, the epic issues that he deals with and the effect that this novel has on millions of readers appears as subordinate to your prancing indignity

Look, fool

[inverarity]

Dude.

You're being a really whiny and irrational child, losing your shit because someone didn't like a book that you like.

First of all, simply_shipping's criticism of this book was nothing like "criticizing MacBeth for glorifying knife crime." It was a personal reaction based on really bad writing of female characters, and she certainly acknowledged that the book had more layers than that.

That's not to say I hated all of the book. It had its good points. Chae telling Chris how Ewan really died was fantastically written and I loved it. I really did like the bit of married life Chris had before Ewan went off to war. I liked most of the scenes Long Rob and Chae were in - especially Long Rob. Once I figured out what most of the words meant, Grassic Gibbons's writing was wonderful (though I never quite got used to the lack of quotation marks).
That's not a hatchet job by someone who didn't read or understand the book. It's a fair and balanced review of a book that ultimately did not appeal to her

Re: Look, fool

[simply_shipping]

inverarity, you said it all better than I ever could. So thanks. :)

(Also, jih68, in case you create another sock to reply after claiming to be done, I didn't call you a troll. I just told you to step on a LEGO. Which I hope you do. Repeatedly. Every day for the rest of eternity.)

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