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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
I don't remember who recommended this book to me, but whoever did obviously does not know me very well at all. It's about a religion where people AMPUTATE PARTS OF THEIR BODY to gain higher levels of devotion. I mean, it's about other stuff too, and I was with it for the first quarter of the book or so (who doesn't love a story about a carnival?) but...
I hated this book in a visceral way that speaks to the potency of the prose. But I also felt sometimes that the metaphors were muddy and that an ill-educated person would not weave a story this way.
If I owned this book in paperback, I would return it or give it away. But it's on my kindle. Ew.
I hated this book in a visceral way that speaks to the potency of the prose. But I also felt sometimes that the metaphors were muddy and that an ill-educated person would not weave a story this way.
If I owned this book in paperback, I would return it or give it away. But it's on my kindle. Ew.
It was the freak show aesthetic that initially drew me to this book, but it was my curiosity to know the ending that kept me going… and did not disappoint. It’s one of those stories that ends in ways you didn’t see coming, and that isn’t easily or casually explained to someone who might inquire about what you’re currently reading. I have always claimed to love a slow burn, and this was a similar but different experience—an incredible collection of events and stories over the course of a decade, just so that you may understand the complex context leading up to the utterly satisfying final chapter of the book.
Transgressive with a capital T.
Dunn uses deformity, disfigurement and eugenics to slyly invert the lens with which we approach taboo, love and beauty. It had me on the very edge of revulsion and sympathy and has many scenes which are permanently burned into my brain now. This is not for the squeamish or the easily offended as it fucking slaloms through most taboos you could care to name.
Dunn uses deformity, disfigurement and eugenics to slyly invert the lens with which we approach taboo, love and beauty. It had me on the very edge of revulsion and sympathy and has many scenes which are permanently burned into my brain now. This is not for the squeamish or the easily offended as it fucking slaloms through most taboos you could care to name.
best book i've read all year - top 10 of all time, definitely.
someone talked me into reading this book.. it's odd to say the least. i heard there was a rumor johnny depp wanted to make this movie.. i'm not sure even he could make me want to see some of the stuff in this
This book is beautifully written. I just had a rough time with many of the characters.
Wow. What a tale. A wonderful, weird and stunning fable. I'll look for more from the same author!
‘Geek Love’ is the byproduct of our inability to escape essentialist notions about the body and its pre-destined future. ‘Freak’ and ‘norm’ bodies serve as categories which impose value systems on the body, including monetary, patriarchal and aesthetic. Miranda’s ‘tail/tale’ is a frame narrative concerned with the reconciliation of the physical body and its ‘history’ and her body itself is a product of these value systems that exploit bodies.
Aka how I got an A1 on my presentation apparently?!!??? WOOOOO!!!!
This book was WILD.
Aka how I got an A1 on my presentation apparently?!!??? WOOOOO!!!!
This book was WILD.