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Slow Man

J.M. Coetzee

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"Slow Man is the story who, within the first couple pages of the book, riding his bicycle and he gets hit by a car. He's an elderly gentleman named Paul Raymond, when he's hit by the car he loses his leg; it has to be amputated. So the rest of the book is really an existential look at what his life has meant and whether -- he really battles with whether he's satisfied with his life and whether he's lived it selfishly or in service of other people. I didn't entirely relate to him because he is an older guy; and he wasn't very family oriented, which I sort of am. And so he was really, he had kind of lived his life as a loner and -- he described it as a quiet little life -- but it was really interesting to see it from his perspective and how much it changed him being an amputee victim. The thing I liked the most was that it had a really interesting variety of characters -- and I don't know if I even necessarily liked all of the characters, but they really -- they played off each other really well, and it was a really interesting take on how to look at your own life. There weren't really any characters that I personally related to, and usually I'm looking for that one character in the book that really speaks to me and that I can really identify with that helps me to sort of get involved in the book and really relate to it. I would really recommend the book to anyone who is looking for a little bit of a deeper meaning, I guess. No one in particular, but it's just kind of a really interesting look at how to live your life and evaluating what your life has meant. I would give this a four out of five stars."