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My god, I'm glad I skipped over the Translator's Note at the start when I began reading this. That really should've been slotted in at the end... Anyway, the book itself was quite a nice read, and after I was a tad bit confused at the ending, the earlier TN cleared it all up for me. Really neat stuff, being along for the mysterious ride with our salaryman narrator, not entirely sure what's happening--that's the kind of viewpoint I like.

I think the way De Maria portrayed social media, years before social media started to exist, was extremely well done. I would've rated this higher, but I am a very character driven type of reader. This book was more about the atmosphere than characters / plot. That atmosphere, though? Wonderful.

glowingskeleton's review

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5.0

Unsettling. Couldn't put it down. For sure the best book I've read this year.

alfsan's review

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3.0

So so creepy!

This book, which is very short by the way, is written in a very "Gogolian" style. I could say it's a mix of Russian old school meets Lovecraft.

The story itself is not as complete as you might expect, but the writing style compensates this.

It is a weird story, in the sense that not much is explained and you have to take a strong leap of faith AND imaginationwith the author to truly summerge yourself to his prose.

I found it refreshing and different from all that I've read lately. I don't give it more than three stars because I think the characters couldve been a bit more developed, and the story be more coherent regarding it's grammatical structure, what I mean is that maybe the translation wasnt clear enough to know when the "description of the dream" stopped and whem normal scenario started.

Worth your 2 hours? Solid yes i f you're into the genre.

gansoup's review

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dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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