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samgillespie's review against another edition
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Suicide, Alcoholism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
jazz03's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
How quickly one can fall to the bottom, how desperate and hopeless a human can get against the brutalizing world. I always can never stop turning the pages of a downfall like what happened in the latter half! (I guess the whole novel was a slow descent into nothingness, poverty, loss, zero.
Time goes on and, I write this optimistically, you find warmth and love and comfort and you can live.
Time goes on and, I write this optimistically, you find warmth and love and comfort and you can live.
And everything was done, nothing was shameful, nor vulgar, nor squeamish, nor could be, everything was mustful. Energy launched and abounded; muscles bulged, bunched and loosened again. Nothing retained. Everything was a blastoff-moonwalk-splashdown, shameless sin before the expulsion. Each single sensation was on its own, soaking up itself, every second was life full and there was no nothingness, until my liquid concentrate diluted and then sinking forever deep, deep, deep.
You know you’ve been in a place too long when every other locale serves as a reference for some sad recollection.
…he replied that when he got old and turned senile his memories might fuse with this vast bank of historical data and the history of the world would seem like his own personal past.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism and Sexual content
Minor: Suicide
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