What do The Sympathizer, A brief history of seven killings, The sellout and The Orphan Master's son have in common? 
 - They all won a highly acclaimed literary award 
 - They all have a ethnic or minority theme to it. 
 - They are all very important cultural/historical documents 
 - They are all genius 
 - They all received 4 stars from me 
 - They all raised a question in my mind whether their enormous complexity and amount of pages were necessary to tell the story they wanted to tell. 
 - So they all lost a star because they got me annoyed, confused, even bored and because they made me wonder if I've become too impatient or just not smart enough. 
 Any reactions to this? Does anybody share my thoughts on this?