More by Austin Clarke

Don't you hate when you read the back of a book and it intrigues you and when you begin reading you are confused as all get out?

I just began reading Austin Clarke's More, which I feel is his attempt to gain critical acclaim for being deep and complex. Reading this book made me want to reread a book that we were assigned in my senior year of high school, How to Read Literature Like a Professor. For example, in the first chapter Clarke compares a bell chiming to a man reaching up the main characters skirt.

Perhaps Clarke's experience as a professor of literature at prominent universities makes him want to go deeper into the intricacies of a character's feelings and emotions. I expect him to do that, but the last thing you want to do is lose your audience because you want them to dive in the deep end of the pool before they are even used to the water.

I will continue to read More to the best of my abilities so that I can give a more comprehensive review. Hopefully Clarke's experience in writing novels (11 novels since 1964) will bring me back to why I bought the book in the first place. (To understand the single mother and her role in her wayward son's actions)

-BK