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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
Favorite book ever. Read it countless times over the past few years & each time is better than the last somehow?
The language just Makes Sense in a way I've never experienced before. Made me cry, smile, feel every emotion known to humankind tbh, etc. You know. The usual.
Maybe I'll reread it in twenty years and feel differently. But God does this book make me feel everything right now.
The language just Makes Sense in a way I've never experienced before. Made me cry, smile, feel every emotion known to humankind tbh, etc. You know. The usual.
Maybe I'll reread it in twenty years and feel differently. But God does this book make me feel everything right now.
girl i have no fuckin clue what was going on here. Very pretty and sad though
Wildly, astonishingly great. So good I don't even know what to do with myself.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
PLEASE SEE CONTENT WARNINGS BELOW!
Well written but I think I have to read again bc it was pretty confusing and kinda frustrating this first time around. Just left me feeling a bit depressed lmao so please be warned. I really just wanted better for the main character, man 😭
Well written but I think I have to read again bc it was pretty confusing and kinda frustrating this first time around. Just left me feeling a bit depressed lmao so please be warned. I really just wanted better for the main character, man 😭
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia
Minor: Sexual content, Toxic relationship
(Vaguely detailed) The main character is molested by an older relative as a child at night. The person is: his older brother It is established as a regular occurrence.
(Vaguely described) there is sexual content but what is there is of purple prose-y or is in the perspective of the morning after.
The relationship that the MC has with another significant character (combined with the MC’s flawed ideas of bodily autonomy) read as toxic to me. This can be potentially triggering.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
beautifully dense, beautifully headache-inducing, beautifully poignant and rewarding in its method. the story itself is not difficult -- geryon has young man who is discovering his sexuality and love in the midst of abuse and neglect -- but the way it is presented, as a kind of long prose-poem that wanders through short chapters that feel more like vignettes, is what makes this quite a pleasurable mindfuck of a literary read.
4 stars. This book was beautifully written but I think the plot or point of the book went over my head a bit. I think this would have been good to read with a class.
I thought this was so beautiful and stunning. Anne Carson’s writing is wonderfully rich, and I’ve never enjoyed poetry as much as I have here (caveat also that this is free verse)
Anne Carson turns a mythical monster into a painfully human boy in this sweet, lonely novel - I’m endlessly intrigued by the choices she made here to alter the original story to fit a modern world, and very touched by Geryon’s internal understanding of these reflections
The story is beautiful (and definitely a little bit sad), the writing is delightful, this may be closer to 4.5 or even 5 stars but I’m leaving room to return to this later and reread, so we’ll see!
I think this has really inspired me to read some of Anne Carson’s translations as well!
Anne Carson turns a mythical monster into a painfully human boy in this sweet, lonely novel - I’m endlessly intrigued by the choices she made here to alter the original story to fit a modern world, and very touched by Geryon’s internal understanding of these reflections
The story is beautiful (and definitely a little bit sad), the writing is delightful, this may be closer to 4.5 or even 5 stars but I’m leaving room to return to this later and reread, so we’ll see!
I think this has really inspired me to read some of Anne Carson’s translations as well!