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Dear Mr. Capote by Gordon Lish

misssusan's review

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1.0

I finally finished! Praise God, sweet merciful arbiter of the universe. I think this might actually be the last of the serial killer themed novels I have to read this term, I cannot put into words how grateful I am.

Some fun facts about this book:

+ the prose style made me want to run away, it just piles up cliches and popular expressions until you are buried under a deluge of meaningless words and putting serious thought into punching the next person who says any variation on 'face the facts' to you

+ the sex was incredibly repellent, like is this just a feature of serial killer novels because i am starting to think this class is secretly an incredibly effective experiment in abstinence education.

+ i don't actually have anything else to say, it just felt weird leaving this at two points. let's just re-emphasize how repulsive this writing is, it took me the entire day to finish reading this book because i kept quitting to take 'breaks' on the internet or stare at the wall or read another book or poke at my brother playing videogames or literally anything other than force myself through more pages, i anti-recommend it to the highest of all possible degrees

1 star

tarynthegreek's review

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2.0

I didn't see it. Every review I had read said it was a disturbingly good read...
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