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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
adventurous
dark
mysterious
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
A quirky book about the dangers of exclusion. A tragic tale about people who are unable to accept the changing world and unwilling to communicate.
Okay so let me try to get my thoughts straight about this book. This book might be set somewhere in the past or the present, in a utopian community called iDeath that also may or may not be an alternative universe in a completely different dimension.
In some kind of world where people have forgotten what certain technology are and are not able to convey to the reader. But reading this book does transport you right there.
It's a world where,
•We have talking tigers that eat your parents and help you with your arithmetic homework.
•The Watermelon Works where watermelon sugar is processed into materials people can build their lives with.
•A changing sun that determines the colour of watermelons
And much more...
The author doesn’t spend a whole lot of time trying to convince you the world of Watermelon Sugar is real. But the characters and emotions certainly are.
Each 'chapter' is like a page long, but the author has told a complete and compelling story through a series of small passages, which all on their own are extremely beautiful. These passages contain a weighty story about death, betrayal and love.
The narrator in the book wants us to believe that he lives a happy and pleasurable life and that everything is in order when the reality is very different. You can many dystopian themes throughout this book, like
•If iDEATH is a utopia, but Why would a utopia be called iDEATH?
•Why do the characters repeatedly answer questions with “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember.
•Why hasn’t anyone written a book in over 35 years?
•If the narrator is so content (as he tries to convey many times), why can’t he sleep at night?
•Why does the narrator seem so nonchalant about tigers eating his parents?
•Why can’t anybody in iDEATH seem to remember anything about the past except inBOIL?
These are a few questions that will pop into your mind immediately as you start reading this book.
In this book, the watermelons might not mean watermelon, and tigers might not be even a creature we know, but the author has described such a perfectly odd world that you can't help be enamoured by it.
In some kind of world where people have forgotten what certain technology are and are not able to convey to the reader. But reading this book does transport you right there.
It's a world where,
•We have talking tigers that eat your parents and help you with your arithmetic homework.
•The Watermelon Works where watermelon sugar is processed into materials people can build their lives with.
•A changing sun that determines the colour of watermelons
And much more...
The author doesn’t spend a whole lot of time trying to convince you the world of Watermelon Sugar is real. But the characters and emotions certainly are.
Each 'chapter' is like a page long, but the author has told a complete and compelling story through a series of small passages, which all on their own are extremely beautiful. These passages contain a weighty story about death, betrayal and love.
The narrator in the book wants us to believe that he lives a happy and pleasurable life and that everything is in order when the reality is very different. You can many dystopian themes throughout this book, like
•If iDEATH is a utopia, but Why would a utopia be called iDEATH?
•Why do the characters repeatedly answer questions with “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember.
•Why hasn’t anyone written a book in over 35 years?
•If the narrator is so content (as he tries to convey many times), why can’t he sleep at night?
•Why does the narrator seem so nonchalant about tigers eating his parents?
•Why can’t anybody in iDEATH seem to remember anything about the past except inBOIL?
These are a few questions that will pop into your mind immediately as you start reading this book.
In this book, the watermelons might not mean watermelon, and tigers might not be even a creature we know, but the author has described such a perfectly odd world that you can't help be enamoured by it.
Odd and entertaining for a while. From back when experimental fiction was unadorned. A small world of symbol suitable for a good afternoon of graduate level English course bullshitting. George Saunders reminds me of this. Name dropper!
I really don’t know how to feel about this book. At some point you have to stop caring about this world making sense. Maybe that is the point.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism
