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4.59 AVERAGE
4.59 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
funny
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have never read anything so genuinley horrible. Like this is offically the most violent foul book I have ever touched and yet I couldn't put this down. It made me feel physically unwell. It made me laugh. The writing style is so eloquent even whilst describing the most degenerate thing ever known to man. The main characters have a dynamic that kills me, because it's like watching a car crash. I can't reccomend this thing to anyone I know. This is a canon event.
The main characters are both so fucked in different ways but I feel like in some ways I have never seen autism written so well. I can relate to certain aspects of Tria and that is horrifying because I've never seen autism written this way. I don't want to describe this as yaoi it's a secret third thing but if anyone says they love toxic yaoi I want them to read this. Serious Weakness is the final boss. I can't say enough about this book I need to tear out the pages and eat them.
Would have been a 5 star but I feel like my girl Oneone did not get as much development as I would have liked.
The main characters are both so fucked in different ways but I feel like in some ways I have never seen autism written so well. I can relate to certain aspects of Tria and that is horrifying because I've never seen autism written this way. I don't want to describe this as yaoi it's a secret third thing but if anyone says they love toxic yaoi I want them to read this. Serious Weakness is the final boss. I can't say enough about this book I need to tear out the pages and eat them.
Would have been a 5 star but I feel like my girl Oneone did not get as much development as I would have liked.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping
THE IMMORTALITY CHIMERA
I read this book in a few days, after an entire year of not reading and while being at a mental low point that has been steadily approaching for months and it was exactly what I needed.
Obviously the main appeal of this book is all the fucked up, disgusting, abhorrent shit that happens. And it WAS very cathartic to read.
But what really stood out to me where the things I didnt expect. The commentary on neurodivergence, disability and socialisation was extremely relatable in a way I rarely see. The characters have been ostracized from society from the beginning, marked as Other, marked as weak. They deal with it in radically different ways, but the wayy they operate in society rang extremely true.
Something I often think about is the stagnation and regression that comes from Merging, comes from Incest. Insul is a character that has stagnated a long time ago, an overgrown school shooter, someone who outlived his story. Trianon doesnt have any solid identity, conforming to those around him, be it Society and Oenone or Darkness and Insul. As the story progresses Trianon is scared of solidifying into an identity, scared of the immortality chimera, scared of choosing one way or another.Towards the end of the novel one feels like he HAS to choose at some point, it all building towards that inevitable moment. But thats not what happens. Instead Trianon enters a state even more stagnant than the one he feared, trapping both Oenone and Insul with him, living in the cabin but keeping contact with society, merging with the shadow while still keeping his old life hostage. That merging of Trianon and Insul into one machinery, one organism, puts him in the same state that Insul has existed in for years, someone who outlived their natural end, someone who cant grow but cant die. I find it quite a beautiful ending, reflecting the pseuso-incestous fucked up triangle that Trianon and Insul created. Theyre merging and its an evolutionary dead-end and they want to stay that way. Yay❤️
I read this book in a few days, after an entire year of not reading and while being at a mental low point that has been steadily approaching for months and it was exactly what I needed.
Obviously the main appeal of this book is all the fucked up, disgusting, abhorrent shit that happens. And it WAS very cathartic to read.
But what really stood out to me where the things I didnt expect. The commentary on neurodivergence, disability and socialisation was extremely relatable in a way I rarely see. The characters have been ostracized from society from the beginning, marked as Other, marked as weak. They deal with it in radically different ways, but the wayy they operate in society rang extremely true.
Something I often think about is the stagnation and regression that comes from Merging, comes from Incest. Insul is a character that has stagnated a long time ago, an overgrown school shooter, someone who outlived his story. Trianon doesnt have any solid identity, conforming to those around him, be it Society and Oenone or Darkness and Insul. As the story progresses Trianon is scared of solidifying into an identity, scared of the immortality chimera, scared of choosing one way or another.
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Sorry for scaring you”
5/5
5/5
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Es tremendo este libro. Pensé que quizás no llegaba a las cinco estrellas, calificación que me reservo para cosas que me parecieron genuinamente magistrales, o clásicos, o me cambiaron la vida. No pensé que fuese el caso de Serious Weakness, pero pasan las semanas y este libro se insertó en mi cerebro como un parásito. No sé si me cambió la vida a mí personalmente, pero es el tipo de narrativa sobre el que se pueden escribir libros enteros. Creo que que puedo calificarlo de clásico moderno sin que eso me genere conflicto. PEDAZO de literatura.
Para ser un concepto relativamente simple hay mucho jugo que se le puede sacar. Por supuesto que en un nivel superficial es una historia sobre sadismo y trauma, y también sobre amor y conexión humana, ponele, pero lo que en realidad estás leyendo es una historia profundamente anclada en la crítica social, y sobre todo un relato del fin de los tiempos. Sí, Triannon está siendo secuestrado y torturado, pero en la gran trama del mundo, ¿qué es eso? Cosas que pasan todo el tiempo, la crueldad haciéndose manifiesta cuando en realidad es rutinaria. Podés salir a la calle cubierto de moretones y sangre, nadie te va a ayudar. Ese dolor es invisible para la gente. Más aun hay, también, un comentario constante sobre las instituciones (la escuela y la familia, fundamentalmente, pero también lo profesional, y acá entra también en discusión lo que es "el mundo del arte", la sacralización insípida y vacua del arte vía el dinero) y sobre la norma social, específicamente en lo que respecta a la psicología; ¿qué implica ser "normal", a quién sirve, qué consecuencias tiene apartarse de eso? La exploración del género y la sexualidad se enmarcan también dentro de la discusión sobre la "normalidad", magníficamente.
Todas estas cosas existen con el trasfondo de un futuro cercano en el que el cambio climático lleva a pequeños apocalipsis cotidianos. Esa construcción de mundo me pareció, también, magistral: sutil y pertinente. Los nombres, los géneros musicales, los eventos, qué cosas se describen como "retro" o "nostálgicas".
No podría decir todas las cosas que pienso sobre este libro porque serían infinitas. Enfocándome menos en la filosofía de la novela, los personajes me parecieron maravillosos e ir conociendo de a poco cómo funcionan me resultó muy gratificante. El lenguaje es también muy bueno, sobre todo los diálogos, y también me pareció innovadora la forma en la que pasa sin demasiado problema de la tercera persona limitada a la omnisciente a la primera persona a la segunda. Y es muy efectivo en hacerte sentir verdaderamente mal, lo cual valoro. ¡Al mismo tiempo es muy cómico! Tiene un humor sardónico muy divertido.
Lo recomiendo muchísimo, pero no a cualquiera. Como ya leí a varias personas mencionar, es difícil describirlo sin hacerlo parecer ni más "suave" ni más oscuro de lo que es. Es ambas cosas.
Para ser un concepto relativamente simple hay mucho jugo que se le puede sacar. Por supuesto que en un nivel superficial es una historia sobre sadismo y trauma, y también sobre amor y conexión humana, ponele, pero lo que en realidad estás leyendo es una historia profundamente anclada en la crítica social, y sobre todo un relato del fin de los tiempos. Sí, Triannon está siendo secuestrado y torturado, pero en la gran trama del mundo, ¿qué es eso? Cosas que pasan todo el tiempo, la crueldad haciéndose manifiesta cuando en realidad es rutinaria. Podés salir a la calle cubierto de moretones y sangre, nadie te va a ayudar. Ese dolor es invisible para la gente. Más aun hay, también, un comentario constante sobre las instituciones (la escuela y la familia, fundamentalmente, pero también lo profesional, y acá entra también en discusión lo que es "el mundo del arte", la sacralización insípida y vacua del arte vía el dinero) y sobre la norma social, específicamente en lo que respecta a la psicología; ¿qué implica ser "normal", a quién sirve, qué consecuencias tiene apartarse de eso? La exploración del género y la sexualidad se enmarcan también dentro de la discusión sobre la "normalidad", magníficamente.
Todas estas cosas existen con el trasfondo de un futuro cercano en el que el cambio climático lleva a pequeños apocalipsis cotidianos. Esa construcción de mundo me pareció, también, magistral: sutil y pertinente. Los nombres, los géneros musicales, los eventos, qué cosas se describen como "retro" o "nostálgicas".
No podría decir todas las cosas que pienso sobre este libro porque serían infinitas. Enfocándome menos en la filosofía de la novela, los personajes me parecieron maravillosos e ir conociendo de a poco cómo funcionan me resultó muy gratificante. El lenguaje es también muy bueno, sobre todo los diálogos, y también me pareció innovadora la forma en la que pasa sin demasiado problema de la tercera persona limitada a la omnisciente a la primera persona a la segunda. Y es muy efectivo en hacerte sentir verdaderamente mal, lo cual valoro. ¡Al mismo tiempo es muy cómico! Tiene un humor sardónico muy divertido.
Lo recomiendo muchísimo, pero no a cualquiera. Como ya leí a varias personas mencionar, es difícil describirlo sin hacerlo parecer ni más "suave" ni más oscuro de lo que es. Es ambas cosas.
challenging
dark
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
if i think about this book for longer than 30 seconds at a time i start getting the distinct feeling that i need to be taken out back and shot like a horse
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Torture, Kidnapping
Minor: Animal cruelty, Mass/school shootings
serious weakness is like if someone recommended you saló: the 120 days of sodom and said it was "really cool and hot, actually".
utter poison. complete and utter poison. i genuinely can not stop thinking about this, it's worked its way into my mind in a kind of sense where i now believe that stockholm syndrome is real. there's a perverse sense of necessity to complete this in my head. but after getting through 50 pages after one of the most graphic and visceral sexual assault scenes i have ever seen in my life, i can safely say that i can not fucking do this.
what is the purpose of art, anyways? am i enjoying myself? is reading this actually making my life better? what drives me to keep picking this one up, thinking about it day after day after day, wondering when i'm going to read it again?
it's good, in a kind of nightmarish sense. it's good. i'm willing to concede that this is good. it's good enough to make me feel like a coward for not managing to tough through it.
utter poison. complete and utter poison. i genuinely can not stop thinking about this, it's worked its way into my mind in a kind of sense where i now believe that stockholm syndrome is real. there's a perverse sense of necessity to complete this in my head. but after getting through 50 pages after one of the most graphic and visceral sexual assault scenes i have ever seen in my life, i can safely say that i can not fucking do this.
what is the purpose of art, anyways? am i enjoying myself? is reading this actually making my life better? what drives me to keep picking this one up, thinking about it day after day after day, wondering when i'm going to read it again?
it's good, in a kind of nightmarish sense. it's good. i'm willing to concede that this is good. it's good enough to make me feel like a coward for not managing to tough through it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Vomit, Kidnapping
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
HOW did i forget i read this this year. serious weakness forever <3
medium: ebook
medium: ebook