Eileen Book Reviews

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Horrible. This book had wasted so much of my time it's ridiculous. I keep waiting for something to happen and 75% of the way through I am quitting. I don't care and can waste no more time to find out. So boring.

ZZZZZZZzzzzz!. The book's description got me to pre-order "Eileen,". By the time it came out, I'd forgotten what it was about.... and began reading blindly. Oh, so boring! I had no interest in Eileen as a character at all. Nothing about her was appealing. I kept waiting for the "ah-ha" moment. It finally happened in the last pages of the book.... And left me saying, "Really?" PLEASE.... Don't waste your time with this one.

Yawn. I’ve made it through half and I give up. I don’t care about this character and I feel like it will never end. For such a short book, this is truly tedious.

Drudgery. Eileen has a lot of stunning flaws meant to also stun the reader. Cheap taboo stuff. Waited for this book to get started- it didn’t. Suffered through insufferable verbiage. Hard to believe the “major motion picture” thing.

Eileen. Hyperbolically bleak, written in a style/voice that continually announces an action to come and then veers off on a tangent, frustrating this reader. A substantial way through the book, I was thinking how refreshing not to have read about violence or murder only to be disappointed a few pages later. The ending seemed weak.

Ottessa does it again with Eileen. Just a depraved soul with no reason to be. How tragic and poetic and me. She really does write for us seeming outcasts brats of children who aren’t allowed to be satisfied with anything. Eileen is the girl that flew harshly beneath the surface. Her few days she gives us are indescribably saddening and dry as a result of a life having lead up to it, no better.

Great writing but oh so dark. Worth the read but note - it is very dark, the characters are mostly well drawn troubled people during the early sixties- you wonder who’s going to blow first!

Well-written. But boring.. The book is 214 pages, but it felt like 500.

Dark and humorous. Expertly written. A great read.

Dark, dank. This was a disgusting read. The diarrhea and purging were overpowering. 150 pages in and the smell was palpable.

Zzzzz…. Redundant slog …

Lots of description. This book is one of my favorites. Eileen has a way of narrating her inner thoughts without making it boring. It's not incredibly in depth, like, F.Scott Fitzgerald depth (thank god) but it still has lots of substance. The imagery is amazing as well. Eileen is a round character. She definitely has flaws. That's what makes her human. She's relatable but not exactly a good samaritan. Some may describe her as rude or unsettling. Eileen's character has much depth; she has many layers to her personality, thoughts, and opinions. There are times in which i loved her, and there are times in which i despised her. The writing is phenomenal. This book is not cliché. It's the most authentic, unique book I've come across. It's real and captivating. If you're looking for a fresh perspective, then i highly recommend this book. No Colleen Hoover characters here.

Terrible. Slow and plotless

Eileen is the bee's knees!. It's awesome. Read it!

Calculated, gimmicky and faddish. Not a thrilling noir at all, just tedious and cynically grotesque, written for shock value and market hype. Man Booker shortlist? Good grief what are they smoking?

Slow and anticlimactic. I found this book to be slow. The ending was dull, anticlimactic, and left me wanting way more plot overall. There was no "poignant point" or "ah moment" in the novel. Disappointing.

Excellent. Such visual writing.

Great McGuffin, Yet Somehow Unsatisfying. There is no doubt. The reviews are correct. You really will not guess the twist. Like a magician, the build up is an interesting slight of hand. But this is the first book I remember skimming over the last final pages because the twist seems unsatisfactory. The book felt long for 200+ pages. The prose is interesting as the charade slowly unfurls. But the final turn of Eileen seemed forced and tedious. Once I knew the big reveal, I kind of just wanted it to be over. And it kept going on....

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Bad story from a clearly skilled writer. A dreary and long winded tale, with basically no plot throughout it’s bloated middle, and an ending that feels cheap after the marathon of bleakness it takes you through to get there.

Moshfegh’s writing is good. The author keeps your attention throughout. The storyline itself felt like it was missing something - the end felt abrupt. Good read overall.

I just like Moshfeg’s writing. This is a really intimate glance into the mind of a very unhappy person. The narrator describes smells and sensations that maybe you’d rather not hear. As an old woman, she describes five days of her wretched life at 24 as a juvenile prison secretary and her father’s only caretaker. There are no filters or embellishments, she describes every thought of a person that has conformed to their misery but still thinks they are above it. She has many moments where her convictions are hypocritical even though she seems to think she is self aware. We are told about how she plans to escape her current life many times. It is one of her fantasies, she has many fantasies though and for most of the book escaping feels as unlikely as the rest of them. She daydreams about her crush —a security guy at the prison— loving her, about her father crying to her about how bad he has treated her, an icicle falling on her head, the secretaries at her work having lesbian sex. It’s a lot. I like that when the moment comes that she must run away from x-ville all of the pieces fall into place unexpectedly: her father’s gun, her dead mother’s last remaining tranquilizers, her car with a broken exhaust pipe, and the money that she had been saving for her escape. Her accomplice, Rebecca, is the reason that she’s forced to leave the city after assaulting and killing one of the prison inmate’s abusive mother (that abuse was horrible). Rebecca only really is a part of the narrators life for 2-3 days. The narrator describes her as she esteemed her as a young woman and as she truly sees her now at old age. I think the author captures the dynamic of a girl crush really well. Rebecca is friendly and beautiful, and to the narrator who doesn’t have any friends she feels like a true platonic love. In the end she doesn’t come through though. I’m not quite sure what I think of Rebecca yet.