Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski

1 review

kmhst25's review

2.5

Components of this book:

1. Genius - the House of Leaves magic isn’t totally lost here. The fresh ideas and perspectives still have the power to wow.
2. Tediousness - some of these pages are damn near incomprehensible. With House of Leaves, you ignore a long list of examples and you don’t miss any plot—it’s an inconsequential shortcut; with this book, the actual content is confusing and muzzed up, multilingual, highly technical, with individualized slang and dialect. It’s a frustrating experience unless you conveniently ignore anything you don’t understand, which feels like cheating and certainly seems more likely to carry consequence than ignoring lists of brand names.
3. Chronic Man Disease - so extremely male, even if it is about a little girl. Men dreaming of assaulting random women, men sleeping with their wives but not sure if their wives even enjoy it, men remembering sleeping with their coworkers whose only role in the story is to be someone that the man remembers sleeping with. All of the weird sex from House of Leaves that made you go “why is this even in here?” but with less genius and even less readability. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Body horror, and Sexual violence

Minor: Vomit and Misogyny