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toriamosfan1's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
jasminenoack's review against another edition
4.0
This book I would say is the precursor to there is no year, I think it's a good book to read as an introduction to blake because it's a shorter version of the much longer book. I like it, it's a little more complicated and confusing (I'd say there is no year was making pretensions to the mainstream harpercollins did publish it after all)
highly recommended
highly recommended
corpuslibris's review
4.0
My favorite line: [One book opened me instead.:]
This book is hard to explain. As the brackets so prevalent in the text suggest, there many levels upon which to interpret it. Is the house literal, the character agoraphobic, and the lack of a world outside of it suggests something post-apocalyptic? Or is the house a metaphor for any number of other things: the house as body, with many layers and complexities inside it? The house as boundary between reality and the metaphysical, suggesting an apocalypse of the psyche? Or the house as a blueprint of memory and personal history to be explored? It is deeply in touch with the visceral, but also the sensual and the spacial. An interesting and perplexing read.
This book is hard to explain. As the brackets so prevalent in the text suggest, there many levels upon which to interpret it. Is the house literal, the character agoraphobic, and the lack of a world outside of it suggests something post-apocalyptic? Or is the house a metaphor for any number of other things: the house as body, with many layers and complexities inside it? The house as boundary between reality and the metaphysical, suggesting an apocalypse of the psyche? Or the house as a blueprint of memory and personal history to be explored? It is deeply in touch with the visceral, but also the sensual and the spacial. An interesting and perplexing read.
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