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cle_mrl's review against another edition
moi aussi je suis cette personne insupportable qui n’arrête pas de parler des livres qu’il a lu!
emreadsbooks's review against another edition
Could not engage with style or protagonist
lelia_t's review
4.0
What an unexpected book. It took me a minute to get my bearings because I was waiting for plot to emerge. This book also taught me how much I value page breaks - no page breaks is truly daunting, but the narrator’s panting eagerness to get everything onto the page is too great to allow for breaks. As I went on, I realized this is a book lover’s book. The narrator catalogs when she’d read certain books and the books she hadn’t yet read when such-and-such happened, and a book lover is reading along making a mental check next to the books she’s read, too. There’s a similarity to Kathy Acker’s collage technique of bringing in books she’s read, inserting herself into the plots of books she’s read, describing books she’s written interspersed with life events (without Acker’s tendency to include porn).
I found Checkout 19 picked up momentum as it went along and since I, like the narrator, have a special place in my heart for A Room with A View, I loved the way she explores that book and the way events parallel (sort of) events in A Room with a View.
I found Checkout 19 picked up momentum as it went along and since I, like the narrator, have a special place in my heart for A Room with A View, I loved the way she explores that book and the way events parallel (sort of) events in A Room with a View.
kens_'s review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
chloeauden's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
theodoralang's review against another edition
4.0
extremely weird book. about reading and writing, sort of stream-of-consciousness. nice to listen to and to zone in and out of.
lauramotta's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide and Rape
threeara's review
3.0
This was totally unique, extremely internal, and honestly a little hard to follow. More of a meditation than a traditional narrative.
aestheticism's review
1.0
Unfortunately gave up after giving it many many goes, on chapter 3 (which seems to be where most people give up, glad I’m not the only one)
This book can only be described as what would happen if i was able to write down my string of thoughts while on a long but uneventful acid trip. There’s certainly some unique insight into the human mind to be found among the many many blocks of text, but overall it’s aimless, stylistically mediocre, and nowhere near as smart and true as it thinks it is.
I am still counting it towards my reading goal for the time I wasted on it ❤️
This book can only be described as what would happen if i was able to write down my string of thoughts while on a long but uneventful acid trip. There’s certainly some unique insight into the human mind to be found among the many many blocks of text, but overall it’s aimless, stylistically mediocre, and nowhere near as smart and true as it thinks it is.
I am still counting it towards my reading goal for the time I wasted on it ❤️