The Gemini

by Meg Elizabeth Atkins

The Gemini is a novel focusing around the relationship triangle between David, the narrator, and a couple he meets in the small town of Millerton, England. It is at once a slice of life for English anti-culture in the 1960s and a progressive delve into the complexity relationships often contain.

189 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1966

Reviews

[Alex Meves · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are positive things about The Gemini. Occasionally, Atkins has a phrase that is profound and makes you think for minute. The book is progressive with its depiction of homosexuality in the early 60s. The novel's display of of relationships in general is real as well. It doesn't shy from the complex and numerous emotions people feel towards each other when they've developed a rapport. People get upset at one another and then move on. They discover things about themselves in the midst of the relationship which evolves the relationship as well.

However, the book is amazingly boring. I should've given it up halfway through honestly. There wasn't a single time where I was compelled by the events in the novel. The first half feels like an introduction to the actual romance, but both halves are equally dull. The writing style is undeveloped and is mixed between a fever-dream stream of consciousness, an emotionally sensitive omnipotent narrator, and Dickinson prose. The book often reminded me of The Catcher in the Rye if it was very terrible.

Please don't read, waste of time.