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sidharthvardhan's review against another edition
4.0
Suppose I put you in a washing machine and set the spinner on for hours- the dizziness you will feel is what I felt while reading the book. This dizziness will makes one question, vaguely that is, the nature of reality, identity and social contact. The unnamed and highly unreliable narrator, who also claims the authorship of previous two works of trilogy and of Murphy too,is thinking about something, or nothing, or something that turned out to be nothing, or something that was always nothing; perhaps everything is nothing, I mean is anything anything? - it doesn't matter, it should matter but it doesn't ..... okay, if you can stand 200 pages of this, you will love it. You might think you have seen worst of Beckett in Molloy and Malone dies - but you will be wrong, whatever he smoked, he was very particularly high while writing this one.
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hadesttw's review against another edition
the last hour of for philip guston in written form.
juuhae's review against another edition
5.0
In my opinion, Beckett's trilogy of novels is one of the greatest works of art ever created. The third part takes the stylistic and thematic decomposition of the previous parts to the extreme. At the same time, this book is a completely new reading experience. You'd have to read the last 130-page paragraph in one go to get the full effect (not that I ever could).
The eternally waxing and waning narrative voice forces the reader to adopt an almost Buddhist mindset. You cannot expect any continuity from the text, nor can you adhere to any facts that you might wish to deduce about the narrator's situation. But once you have reached this state, without expectations of the future, without memories of the past, you can surrender to the elegant flow of words.
The eternally waxing and waning narrative voice forces the reader to adopt an almost Buddhist mindset. You cannot expect any continuity from the text, nor can you adhere to any facts that you might wish to deduce about the narrator's situation. But once you have reached this state, without expectations of the future, without memories of the past, you can surrender to the elegant flow of words.
froggin_around_'s review against another edition
4.0
The plays that are readable are quite good, but most of them are very hard to grasp as written text. So yeah, just go to the theatre.
frvncesco's review against another edition
5.0
I’m not even sure what to say but this book was exhilarating. Can’t seem to grasp what it fully was about and can’t really find anything online that concretely describes his intentions but I’m taking away the idea of language, consciousness, the self, questions of existence, the existence of a book without an author, and also the identities that are created above our conscious. I also feel like this could be about Samuel Becketts voice as an author and if that voice were separated from him. Idk. Either way still worth reading based on the prose and structure alone. Crazy. Overall, it was fire tho.