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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
I really liked the allusion to Psycho. Maybe watching it would help me come up with a deeper meaning of this text. Or maybe not.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
With Delillo,my favourite living author, it's all about the central metaphors and the sculpted words he plants as little word cluster bomblets that detonate in your reading mind as you progress and stop you up short. "She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself". You don't need to say anything else to have a full picture of this person in your mind's eye. This is a book about waiting. A civilian specialist adviser to the US military, has retired to the most isolated place he can find in order to consider the meaning of his work. A film maker accompanies him, wanting to make a single-take movie of the man addressing the camera about his findings. In the name of research, as pre-production of a scriptless movie, they hang out together in the desert. And that is the plot. What it really is however is a meditation on life and the human condition. Coming in at 117 pages it avoids the indulgence that such treatments usually deliver. Instead it is a masterpiece of layered, dense economy. Each sentence is a carefully conceived chisel into the grain of a fine marble sculpture. Fabulous.
Listened to this as an Audio book for short book group. I loved listening to this book. The language and gorgeous writing. Story is interesting. Not crazy about underlying male gaze on women. Not quite misogynistic but heading in that direction.
Sparse, beautiful, and achingly sad depiction of the distance between humans and what it means to slow down and look at life, even when we think that's what we're already doing.