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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
I get isolation does weird things to your brain, but I really didn't get some of the character's decisions... Some of the stuff just doesn't make sense, but I guess that's part of the point. I kinda loved but also hated the ending. And I don't like that we don't get to know anything more specific about the sea creatures. Mostly they are there to attack the main characters and the females are apparently super sex goddesses?
“We are never very far from those we hate. For this very reason, we shall never be truly close to those we love.”
I have a very complicated relationship with this book. I really enjoyed reading it, but I'm not sure I entirely... get it. As satire, it's wonderful. I feel like there might be a point in here about colonialism, which, I mean, not the greatest thing tomake the natives literal monsters . It seems to be specifically critical of masculinity and male violence. In any case it's definitely a story about castaways, three people who come together only to isolate themselves from each other.
I love an unreliable narrator; he's incredibly neurotic and makes the most questionable leaps in logic. Delusional. Very funny, ironic. The end seems to veer sharply into magical realism, but I don't know, I like that.
Once again, I enjoyed reading it, despite the sexual and physical violence. I hope that wasn't condoned by the author. I loved the descriptions of the landscape andthe monsters, especially once the narrator learns more about them.
I have a very complicated relationship with this book. I really enjoyed reading it, but I'm not sure I entirely... get it. As satire, it's wonderful. I feel like there might be a point in here about colonialism, which, I mean, not the greatest thing to
I love an unreliable narrator; he's incredibly neurotic and makes the most questionable leaps in logic. Delusional. Very funny, ironic. The end seems to veer sharply into magical realism, but I don't know, I like that.
Once again, I enjoyed reading it, despite the sexual and physical violence. I hope that wasn't condoned by the author. I loved the descriptions of the landscape and
read this with book club basically just bc it's set in antarctica and it's fine, i guess? 2.5 stars, didn't hate it but didn't enjoy it
men are and always have been gross, is basically my takeaway from this
men are and always have been gross, is basically my takeaway from this
