After a long few weeks, I finally finished The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. I found the first 100 pages or of this book to be the most boring reading imaginable. I didn't like the writing style, subject matter, or characters. I think I wanted to give up on this book several times, but I made myself stick with it. I'm not sure exactly when I changed my mind about this book. I don't remember if I actually started liking it or just sucked it up to finish it.
The characters I did like in the book are Wavey and Herry. I think that maybe once those characters were introduced more, I had to see what would happen in the book. I think they are the only reason I finished the book.
My biggest complaint in this book is that there seemed to be so many things left unanswered, such as characters and boats/housing disappearing, family feuds, etc. I don't know if I wasn't understanding the writing, or if these things really were just ignored.
I would give the beginning of this book about 1/2 star. I kind of liked the end, like last 40 pages. I think ideally I would give this book 2 1/2 stars and not recommend it to anyone. I feel like after reading this, my mind just has a big question mark in it.
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