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adventurous
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
One of the best, most surprising and most shocking books I’ve ever read in terms of style and technique. (It's like my writing but more poignant and concise and beautiful and everything you admire and want to achieve in your own work amplified ten thousand times [get the allusion?]. Some stylistic choices made are so similar to mine, it's incredible. It's like looking in the mirror and seeing the ideal you, but ten thousand times smarter and more beautiful)
The romanticization of lives, young and broken and dreaming amid a horrific war, the detachment, the emotionlessness of the unreliable narrator, it hits different. It goes off on tangents, in stream-of-conciousness and almost post-modern imaginations and rambles, in a confusion of reality and speech and imagination and past trauma and present horrors. Yet it never loses its focus. And it is all made very, very, shockingly beautiful.
Particular aspects of the book remind me of The Haunting of Hill House (the loneliness, the absence of a home), The Bell Jar (the jumbling of past and present, the numbness, the numb sadness) and The Cather in the Rye (the anguish, the confusion, the mistakes and being lost in the world), although De Niro's Game discusses themes very different from these books mentioned. Simply genius.
The romanticization of lives, young and broken and dreaming amid a horrific war, the detachment, the emotionlessness of the unreliable narrator, it hits different. It goes off on tangents, in stream-of-conciousness and almost post-modern imaginations and rambles, in a confusion of reality and speech and imagination and past trauma and present horrors. Yet it never loses its focus. And it is all made very, very, shockingly beautiful.
Particular aspects of the book remind me of The Haunting of Hill House (the loneliness, the absence of a home), The Bell Jar (the jumbling of past and present, the numbness, the numb sadness) and The Cather in the Rye (the anguish, the confusion, the mistakes and being lost in the world), although De Niro's Game discusses themes very different from these books mentioned. Simply genius.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence, War, Confinement, Death of parent, Suicide, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Xenophobia
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