Book: Sophie's Choice, William Styron

This book took me waaaay too long to read! When I read The Year of Magical Thinking, they referred to Sophie's Choice in there, and the husband had read the book a number of times. I had bought the book a while back for Bric a Brac, and then decided to read it instead of selling it. 

I never saw the movie, so had nothing to compare it to. 

The first part was so good. Loved it, very different to what I thought it would be. I thought it would be very dark, but instead it was about Stingo (the author's) journey of living in New York and meeting Sophie and Nathan. A wonderful sense of humour and written beautifully. 

But then, it got very tedious. I find it very boring when someone writes about dreams / drug trips and sex. There was also quite a lot of gender based violence. All which is necessary to formulate the all round complicated relationships. 

In between we also learn about Sophie's background and harrowing journey. 

It only starts to pick up again towards the end, she didn't have much time for the choice she had to make; all very heart breaking, an impossible choice.