Title: If you like long, drawn-out descriptions of everything under the sun, this is your book
Product review: The Pagoda, like almost any book, has something to offer, but in my opinion it's not much. It seemed as though the author's main goal with this book was to describe every object or situation to the thousandth degree, so that absolutely no word was left unused, and this got old fast. I don't think there's one page in this book which doesn't have an unnecessary description about this, that, or the other. In all, the actual story of this book was probably no more than 30 pages, if that, while the rest of the pages were filled with (mostly) needless details, the purpose for which seemed to be the author's desire to wow readers with her extraordinary ability to describe any given thing/situation to death.On the positive side, the book does offer some interesting information/perspectives on gender, class, and race issues during 19th-century (colonized) Jamaica. I just wish there had been more of that and less "filler."
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