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nichecase's review against another edition
4.0
ЃEЂЃEWhat can I write for Ed? The question puts faith on the cafГ© table with the mealy apple and chopped orange, meager allegory garden of decay and orderly renewal. Scale falls off the map: To die and return from the grave.ЃEЂЃE
Strangely lovely is the word that comes to mind of this one, even though it wasn't really - often grotesque or frustrating or strange. Lots to say about time, love, language, longing, dreaming.
Strangely lovely is the word that comes to mind of this one, even though it wasn't really - often grotesque or frustrating or strange. Lots to say about time, love, language, longing, dreaming.
wermyhermy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
3.75
Moving but confusing
Lots of Butt stuff
Lots of Butt stuff
emilycm's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
"writing that banality does not alter the hope that ed won't die, will stop being dead. mourning occurs in the empty wasteland between the crowded past and the crowded present."
gut wrenching and beautiful prose!!! i love the interchange between memory, dream, and notation.
gut wrenching and beautiful prose!!! i love the interchange between memory, dream, and notation.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Grief, Death, Terminal illness, and Dementia
pboyreads's review against another edition
The writing style was hard to follow, almost like one very long vaguely connected poem. Some parts were beautiful, other parts impossible to understand.
5erinnicole's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
This book has some of the most painfully heart wrenching paragraphs I’ve ever read.
I will be thinking about the ideas presented about what exists after we are gone forever. Or at least until I am gone.
Some parts of the book made less sense than others but it all felt like it was in service of the author making sense of the nonsensical death of someone close to him.
This was different than any other story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic I have read or seen. And I think it humanized the survivors in a way that is much less common, especially in a book that was still mostly about the dead.
I will be thinking about the ideas presented about what exists after we are gone forever. Or at least until I am gone.
Some parts of the book made less sense than others but it all felt like it was in service of the author making sense of the nonsensical death of someone close to him.
This was different than any other story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic I have read or seen. And I think it humanized the survivors in a way that is much less common, especially in a book that was still mostly about the dead.
robs320's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
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