Sanchit Sahay's Reviews > Either/Or

Having read The Idiot at roughly the same age as Selin had been in the book, I felt myself strangely attracted to the setting, the people, and the trains of thought that the book provided. Having finished it, I really wanted to continue the process of reading the book. That feeling of "But hey! I need this book to be longer" fortunately is true even for Either/Or.

I feel this book does a good job as a coming of age novel, and explores to great detail a variety of topics that come with the territory. Having had thoughts similar to those that Selin has while exploring her life, I found the book to be a little therapeutic. I really liked the premise of the book being conversations revolving around Kierkegaard's Either/Or since I believe, at least in my own personal life, that the premise plays somewhat of a strong part during the your early 20s.

This book also has a long list of other books and other authors that it mentions, not being anything close to an avid reader, I had little to no information about the material that was being talked about beforehand, however at no point did I find it particularly hard to follow. I can see that the book might seem to drag a little or feel a little pretentious to people who have opinions about said books, but I have no frame of reference to know if that is true or not. All in all I was just glad that this book also served as a little bootcamp for a variety of different important literary works for me.

Being a book that is thinking and talking heavy rather than plot heavy, I was satisfied with the fact that the talk and thoughts were something enjoyable and ponderable. Can't wait for a third book named after yet another classic.