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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
challenging
sad
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
man door hand hook car door.
Content Warnings
Minor: Incest, Sexual assault
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Wanted to like this far more than I actually did. Carson writes beautifully, and does such an incredible job of transposing a niche Greek myth into modern day reality, but something fell emotionally flat for me.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
too abstract for my taste. none of the prose or imagery really stuck with me. annoyed I left this on my shelf for so long 😭 i don’t feel whatever all the critics do.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
I was fascinated by the idea of a narrative poem in a contemporary setting drawing heavily from Greek mythology and, in that sense, this book more than delivered.
But I think this is one of those cases where I admire or appreciate a book more than like. In fact, I had a really hard time connecting emotionally to it, and I think the form factor had no small part in it.
The poetic form and language work beautifully to heighten the tragic figure of Geryon and his internal struggles, and some of the descriptions of the landscape/environment where he and Herakles meet and diverge paths really hit. But most of the time I felt myself disconnecting from the narrative, lingering in the imagery of a sentence fragment but not caring much for the bigger picture in which it was inserted. I usually love fragmented narratives, but something here was not quite it for me.
Still, I would recommend it for those who want sad (love) stories about sad and broken boys.
TW: incest, sexual violence, child abuse, drug use
But I think this is one of those cases where I admire or appreciate a book more than like. In fact, I had a really hard time connecting emotionally to it, and I think the form factor had no small part in it.
The poetic form and language work beautifully to heighten the tragic figure of Geryon and his internal struggles, and some of the descriptions of the landscape/environment where he and Herakles meet and diverge paths really hit. But most of the time I felt myself disconnecting from the narrative, lingering in the imagery of a sentence fragment but not caring much for the bigger picture in which it was inserted. I usually love fragmented narratives, but something here was not quite it for me.
Still, I would recommend it for those who want sad (love) stories about sad and broken boys.
TW: incest, sexual violence, child abuse, drug use
I really wish I understood it but apart from appreciating certain flourishes of language and being like Wah Wah homosexual and family angst I really do feel that this novel was grappling with concepts that just went over my head. There’s probably at least one theme about something like history that I most certainly didn’t notice. Kind of dragged near the end.
“ My chapter here, an attempt to understand Carson’s project in Autobiography of Red as a poetic history of western ideas about human selfhood,”
Like yeahhh lol I do not have the bandwidth to comprehend this
“ My chapter here, an attempt to understand Carson’s project in Autobiography of Red as a poetic history of western ideas about human selfhood,”
Like yeahhh lol I do not have the bandwidth to comprehend this
This makes me want to never bother trying to write again - amazing
emotional
reflective
fast-paced