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bandrs's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
leighlucas's review against another edition
5.0
"Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks."
"...a heart surgeon told me once,
no need to worry: once the cutting starts, 'a wound
shines by its own light.'"
"And I thought, Fuck! Those humans!
Always finding a way to break each other's hearts!"
"...a heart surgeon told me once,
no need to worry: once the cutting starts, 'a wound
shines by its own light.'"
"And I thought, Fuck! Those humans!
Always finding a way to break each other's hearts!"
pollardgreens's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
"Aristotle thought earthquakes were caused
by winds trapped in subterranean caves.
We're more scientific now, we know
it's just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it's still legal."
by winds trapped in subterranean caves.
We're more scientific now, we know
it's just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it's still legal."
dcalli's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, War, Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Domestic abuse
lesbianaunt's review against another edition
anne carson moment..
"Compare and contrast catching a spear in the spleen with utter mental darkness. Consider ancient vs modern experience. Consider whether any of these is what is meant in poetry by 'a beautiful death.'" "Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks." "But Hermione! Hermoine is my own soul walking around in another body." "Exit NORMA JEANE on wind phone, hand to ear, Hermoine it's me, hello hello hello hello hello." "We have already reflected on Helen's first appearance in Homer's Illiad (Book III, verses 126-129) where she sits in her room livestreaming the war at Troy onto a tapestry. Her thread weaves in and out of living skulls." "He is using his inside voice, his most inside voice. The distance between that voice and the fight voice measures your whole world. How can a voice change so. You are saved. He has saved you. He sees you saved. An easement occurs, as night dew on leaves. And yet (you think suddenly) you yourself do not possess this sort of inside voice—no wonder he's lonely. You cannot offer this refuge, cannot save him, not ever, and, although physiological in origin, or genetic, or who knows, you understand the lack is felt by him as a turning away. No one can heal this. You both decide without words to just—skip it. You grip one another." "Inside me now I am empty of everything and every thought except Hermoine. Hermoine will meet us in New York at the pier, I say to myself. Hermoine is not lying under a sheet in a beeping overlit emergency room. Hermoine will run towards us, laughing and skeptical, with her coat undone. I keep trying to focus on her running with her coat undone, as she always did, and me reaching to close it, as I always did, me doing up a button and her pulling away exasperated, undoing it."
"Compare and contrast catching a spear in the spleen with utter mental darkness. Consider ancient vs modern experience. Consider whether any of these is what is meant in poetry by 'a beautiful death.'" "Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks." "But Hermione! Hermoine is my own soul walking around in another body." "Exit NORMA JEANE on wind phone, hand to ear, Hermoine it's me, hello hello hello hello hello." "We have already reflected on Helen's first appearance in Homer's Illiad (Book III, verses 126-129) where she sits in her room livestreaming the war at Troy onto a tapestry. Her thread weaves in and out of living skulls." "He is using his inside voice, his most inside voice. The distance between that voice and the fight voice measures your whole world. How can a voice change so. You are saved. He has saved you. He sees you saved. An easement occurs, as night dew on leaves. And yet (you think suddenly) you yourself do not possess this sort of inside voice—no wonder he's lonely. You cannot offer this refuge, cannot save him, not ever, and, although physiological in origin, or genetic, or who knows, you understand the lack is felt by him as a turning away. No one can heal this. You both decide without words to just—skip it. You grip one another." "Inside me now I am empty of everything and every thought except Hermoine. Hermoine will meet us in New York at the pier, I say to myself. Hermoine is not lying under a sheet in a beeping overlit emergency room. Hermoine will run towards us, laughing and skeptical, with her coat undone. I keep trying to focus on her running with her coat undone, as she always did, and me reaching to close it, as I always did, me doing up a button and her pulling away exasperated, undoing it."
nicoleswiggard's review against another edition
5.0
i read carson’s Autiobiography of Red when i was maybe 17, and i’m sure my understanding of her writing then has nothing on the resonance it has with me now.
norma jean baker of troy is an extraordinary piece, an exploration into the lives of two mythologized women - centuries apart - written as double-exposures, composites of each other. we see the similarities of their stations in life, the inescapability of beauty, desire, and male ideals.
im incapable of the words to fully describe the genius of anne carson. incredible.
—
“The truth is,
a cloud went to Troy.
A cloud in the shape of Norma Jean Baker.
The gods arranged it, sort of.”
“I was born good, grown bad”
“And I thought, Fuck! Those humans!
Always finding a way to break each other’s hearts!”
“of everything she has you have absolutely nothing, she has everything too much, so you take some. At first just a little. It blooms. You smile. You are in agony”
norma jean baker of troy is an extraordinary piece, an exploration into the lives of two mythologized women - centuries apart - written as double-exposures, composites of each other. we see the similarities of their stations in life, the inescapability of beauty, desire, and male ideals.
im incapable of the words to fully describe the genius of anne carson. incredible.
—
“The truth is,
a cloud went to Troy.
A cloud in the shape of Norma Jean Baker.
The gods arranged it, sort of.”
“I was born good, grown bad”
“And I thought, Fuck! Those humans!
Always finding a way to break each other’s hearts!”
“of everything she has you have absolutely nothing, she has everything too much, so you take some. At first just a little. It blooms. You smile. You are in agony”
rubynyu's review against another edition
challenging
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.0
slugnie's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0