The Song of the Lark
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone. His offices were in the Duke Block, over the drug store. Larry, the doctor’s man, had lit the overhead light in the waiting-room and the double student’s lamp on the desk in the study.
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An intensely dry, laborious study of an emerging ‘artist’ which culminates in one of the most hackneyed, melodramatic endings I have ever read. Try something more to the point, like ‘A Lost Lady’. Pass on this one.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Please, Willa. You can do better than this. From a confused narrator schizophrenically shifting viewpoint and offering information that would be unknown to a young woman in Moonstone, to the painfully obvious scheme of two men pursuing this narcissistic “artist” yet initially held back by oppressive wives, this novel symbolizes eight hours of my life that I shall never recover. It’s redeeming value can be seen in this highly formulaic bildungs roman in the fact that a character, not just a stereotype of a female breaking into the artworld, emerges.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
i usually like cather’s work (o pioneers & my antonia), but what a disappointment & waste of my weekend. thea, fred and dr. archie somehow lacked the spark that makes characters memorable. the scenes, dialogue & setting of moonstone didn’t strike right.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book because I liked My Antonia so much that I wanted to read additional books by Willa Cather. Huge mistake. This book was extremely disappointing and one can’t help feeling a strong dislike for Thea towards the end of the book. A real artist does not exhibit the contempt for “ordinary” (i.e. non-artist) people that Thea somehow buys in Cather’s book. Learning about Thea’s useless and superficial (yes! superficial and pompous) life was a huge waste of my time.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Willa Cather’s novel traces the footsteps of a pleasantly-gifted young woman, Thea Kronborg, as a hard-headed, determined woman trying to find her place in society. Thea leaves her tiny and isolated hometown in hopes to get noticed and start a successful career in piano perfomance. Her journey takes her across the country and even to Germany, and even changes course as she decides to pursue her childhood dream of apt a singer. Her journey is long and tiresome, and poor choices cause her to stray from her goal, but eventually she is able to make herself a prominent star in the New York opera scene.
I did not care for was how extremely average Thea is. It is permanently fun to read about one who is unique, different, or supernatural in some way or shape, but Thea is so painfully normal it felt like I could be reading about any additional person and the storyline would remain the same. Thea does not have anything special about her, she is just another person in the crowd.
Thea’s contradictory attitude and poor choice-building caused me to feel agitated and annoyed at the protagonist. I know everybody makes mistakes, but only a lummox would have the right mind to faulter as much as Thea does. In fleeting, she makes some pretty dumb mistakes and the book would be much better off lacking some of Thea’s rash and poorly thought out decisions.
Overall, I establish this book hard to bear and I could not wait for it to be finished.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5