ruth ozeki a tale for the time being summary

The only hope was that the brilliance of the Nao sections would override the banality of the Ruth sections. Then the end starts drawing closer and I swear I have never been so close to chucking a book in disgust after investing so much time. Almost abandoned the book but Nao's story was compelling enough to hang on. I listened to this and every time Nao's part was over and Ruth's story came up, I groaned. The worst parts were Ruth's dreams!!! Oh lord how annoying, how iffy and again how bloody irritatingly annoying.Ĭut out all the Ruth sections and this would have been a much better book. Found Ruth self pitying and bloody boring. Then the Ruth sections would pop up and it was like going from brilliance to silly trivialities in milliseconds. The reason it was going to get a great review was the fact that the Nao's sections were well written, dispensing a lot of cultural information without sounding like a lecture. How bad is it? At first I thought it was a joke within the book. It's not the spiritual realm that's the problem, it's the fact that it comes from almost nowhere and it sounds forced and ridiculous, very unlike Nao's meeting of her ancestors.

It's ridiculous! Some psychic, whimsical, Then Ruth's dream sequence comes up and ugh it damn near ruins the bloody book.

Till about the second half of part 3, I was all set to give this rave reviews 'cause Nao's story was so compelling and well written plus there wasn't enough of Ruth's woeful tone to grate on the nerves. Dammit this should have been at least a 4 star book!

Ruth ozeki a tale for the time being summary