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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
funny
medium-paced
i'm sure this is for someone, that someone just isn't me...
but i certainly can appreciate the vision ... even if it did seem 2 be executed poorly
but i certainly can appreciate the vision ... even if it did seem 2 be executed poorly
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Incest, Self harm, Blood, Excrement, Death of parent
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mysterious
challenging
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reflective
medium-paced
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funny
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medium-paced
when people call I book refreshing I know this isn’t what they’re talking about but that’s how I feel about Lobster. I have never read anything like this before and would happy to only read things like this for the rest of my life. Bizarre and gross and wonderful.
[dead-dove-do-not-eat.gif here]
I mean, the blurb said it was about a lobster in a tank on the Titanic that fucks a woman, and boy, did it deliver.
I mean, the blurb said it was about a lobster in a tank on the Titanic that fucks a woman, and boy, did it deliver.
fast-paced
My cultural consumption over the last few months has leaned very French and rather surrealist, so this fit right in. My book club chose this book, and I decided to read the novel in French (I'm sooooo cultured) as a way to be more immersed in the language while I was visiting family in France.
I learned a lot of words, and had many WTF moments along with others where I literally burst out laughing. I don't know that laughter is what the author wished to convey, but how else am I supposed to react whena giant raft of blue lobsters rises from the depths of the ocean, spurred by their erotic desire for Lobster, the red, half cooked messianic crustacean? That demon of the Northern Atlantic ?
I know I likely missed some context because I didn't always pause to look up all the words I didn't know. However, I got enough of the context to ask "why was this written?" and "why was this written in this way?". Lecasble makes some deliberate choices, especially in the father-daughter relationship, that are very classically "man writing in the 20th century" where they provide windows into the (let's be real, it's never been secret) persistent sexual thoughts of the male characters.
My favorite part of this novella has been retelling the bizzarro plot. I'm most disappointed thatJules gets a lobster tail penis, and doesn't even get to use it. Couldn't the author let Anjelina have one last good thing before she dies??
I learned a lot of words, and had many WTF moments along with others where I literally burst out laughing. I don't know that laughter is what the author wished to convey, but how else am I supposed to react when
I know I likely missed some context because I didn't always pause to look up all the words I didn't know. However, I got enough of the context to ask "why was this written?" and "why was this written in this way?". Lecasble makes some deliberate choices, especially in the father-daughter relationship, that are very classically "man writing in the 20th century" where they provide windows into the (let's be real, it's never been secret) persistent sexual thoughts of the male characters.
My favorite part of this novella has been retelling the bizzarro plot. I'm most disappointed that
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
The premise sounds amazing, but the book was dreadful. I have no idea if being able to read it in the original French would change the story, but it just had an awful lot of telling and not showing, along with a plot that just jumped around the place