Title: Depressing
Product review: I loved "Stoner" and after reading many of the reviews of this novel decided I needed to further explore the writing of John Williams. The writing is excellent; the description of the land, the buffalo, the stench of the killings, the snow, pine trees and the physical description of the men. However, that's it. I never felt any connection to the characters themselves. I just got bogged down in all the detail, the endless description of the miseries these men endured only to have everything lost. Someone suggested this novel could be Camus writing a "western" - that pretty much sums it up. However, Camus left me pretty cold; this does the same. I'm not sure what food for thought this provides beyond life is hard, meaningless, and so what?
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