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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
You've been invited to a special screening of a movie. You go because you have nothing better to do that night. Sitting down, nearly alone in the theater, the film begins. You recognize the setting and, then, you realize you're the star. It's a film of you eating lunch on a bench while reading. Then the movie ends. This is how the story in Hidden Camera begins. This is the quest of the main character (who remains nameless) to determine who has filmed him and why. And, probably more importantly, are they filming him now? What about... now?
There is a fun urgency to this novel. Once it starts you will want to discover the answers to the characters questions. As the character falls down the rabbit hole over the course of one rainy night in the city, he finds that every answer leads to more questions. The author does a good job of creating mounting paranoia and tension; the character thinks and rethinks every move wondering who is watching and who is judging him.
With all of the fun of getting to the climax of the book, I found the ending, for me, lacked the punch of other surrealist writers that I have enjoyed such as Haruki Murakami. It is only at the end that I came to understand how experimental this work truly is. I liked it, but it will not become a book I recommend widely.
Recommended for fans of Murakami and existentialism. Not recommended for lovers of straightforward fiction. This book will require your interpretation and a willful release of reality.
There is a fun urgency to this novel. Once it starts you will want to discover the answers to the characters questions. As the character falls down the rabbit hole over the course of one rainy night in the city, he finds that every answer leads to more questions. The author does a good job of creating mounting paranoia and tension; the character thinks and rethinks every move wondering who is watching and who is judging him.
With all of the fun of getting to the climax of the book, I found the ending, for me, lacked the punch of other surrealist writers that I have enjoyed such as Haruki Murakami. It is only at the end that I came to understand how experimental this work truly is. I liked it, but it will not become a book I recommend widely.
Recommended for fans of Murakami and existentialism. Not recommended for lovers of straightforward fiction. This book will require your interpretation and a willful release of reality.