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adam75241's review
2.0
The writing itself was beautiful, with sharp and poignant sentences, but the combination of those sentences didn’t create a story for me. Actually, I don’t think I even know what happened. Like, at all. Serious, what’s this book about?
j_olip's review against another edition
3.0
"A life lasting a whole evening, a film lasting a whole life in which the best heroes lived just long enough to act an episode, for you to like them"
rocketiza's review
This was a book that I can recognize was really good, but did not hold my attention at all in the way it was written.
theoneana's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
busyreadingandthings's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25
georgiarose710's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
katherinevarga's review against another edition
Felt like a poet's attempt at a novel - the story didn't grip me, but there was some lovely language.
ronanmcd's review against another edition
4.0
A powerful, moving but curious book.
Everything is fractured, broken and split(!) apart. The reasons behind the suicide, the town in which it is set, the purpose of any character's actions, the narrative and order. Everything jumps in and out of focus, and nothing is ever quite right.
And this is a fitting way to tell a story set in a town so forgotten, so depressed, that it holds its own back; the only way to leave it, let alone have a chance to succeed, is to leave. But the town draws the narrator back.
At every time the characters seem to have little say in their actions, as though habit formed their decisions.
It's a strange book. Wonderful and weird. The author writes poetry. That can't be coincidental to how this book turned out.
Everything is fractured, broken and split(!) apart. The reasons behind the suicide, the town in which it is set, the purpose of any character's actions, the narrative and order. Everything jumps in and out of focus, and nothing is ever quite right.
And this is a fitting way to tell a story set in a town so forgotten, so depressed, that it holds its own back; the only way to leave it, let alone have a chance to succeed, is to leave. But the town draws the narrator back.
At every time the characters seem to have little say in their actions, as though habit formed their decisions.
It's a strange book. Wonderful and weird. The author writes poetry. That can't be coincidental to how this book turned out.