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Despite this one weakness, The Rotters’ Club is a fun and informative read, capable of both making the reader laugh and of delivering profound statements. In many instances, the novel serves as a light satire of British institutions, gently poking fun at their interesting idiosyncrasies. A particularly funny example of this is a classroom scene in which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that...
...Rotters’ Club, in its own way, faithfully represents the violence and melancholy inherent in English culture in the 1970s—but does so with a light heart and a sardonic wit, also characteristic of the English. In the end, the reader comes away with a sense of perseverance through a life of dissatisfaction. None of the characters are miserable, nor are any of them truly content. Even in the end, when they have accomplished their goals, they cannot achieve happiness simply due to the fact that unhappiness surrounds them. Nonetheless, the melancholy reads sweetly; the characters push...
...most importantly, in a book that exalts poetry, the original poetry presented does not move the reader...
Crowley excuses the mediocrity of Kit’s poems by making them the product of a high-school student, and of Falin’s by presenting them only in translations—which are, we understand, far inferior to the rhymed, rhythmic originals. But if the reader is to share the semi-religious experiences of Kit and Falin, the poetry in question must be more than mere scaffolding to advance the author’s themes...
There are far more victims of sexual violence than the average flier-reader is aware of. It is vital to both combat the attitudes that lead to sexual violence and create a supportive environment in which survivors can freely express their emotions about what happened to them. But the purple ribbons are essentially meaningless. It would not hurt anyone to wear the ribbon, but what would it accomplish beyond a momentary acknowledgement of a serious societal problem...