The Eyre Affair 1: Style
I deliberately chose The Eyre Affair, with its comic slant, to be different from the last couple of more martial ones. Did the shift in style and intention work for you?
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I deliberately chose The Eyre Affair, with its comic slant, to be different from the last couple of more martial ones. Did the shift in style and intention work for you?
Comments
I'm afraid it didn't. I was quite looking forward to something humorous, but this didn't do it for me. I think it was the mismatch between the utterly ludicrous setting and the intense seriousness with which the characters (and hence us) sometimes treated it. I think the tone didn't gel across that divide and I ended up just not caring about anyone or anything in the book.
Which is a shame, as it's obviously successful enough to have spawned a large series. It's clearly a problem at my end.
It was a quick read, interesting enough, but the humor didn't work so well for me. I found it mildly amusing, but nothing to write home about. I actually liked it otherwise.
On the plus side, I’m glad the author avoided the modern trap of mashing incongruous things together a it off as humour.
That would be a remarkable piece of intertextuality
Not a whit to me...