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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
Misogynistic & strange tonally. Can see why it holds its depressive suicidal reputation.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual violence
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Murder
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death
challenging
dark
tense
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I think I need to grow up and come back to it when I am older and wiser. A lot of things felt too, coy and dry. The orientalistic description of countries and the misogynistic tinge of details didn't help either. It started off very very good, really.
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Complicated
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
a search for the source of the narrator's obsession with death — the escape from the inversions of life and its reflections and repetitions holds a haunting allure. the inscrutable nature of life's inverted deformations which resolve in its ceasing.
the inescapable vision of the woman whose eyes torments him as the death awareness takes root in his heart — an unshakeable truth he can only escape in moments of drug induced ecstacy, which leads backwards through time and into a deepening hallucinatory madness.
the prose is layered with poetic symbolism — fragmented and displayed in shifting transmutations as a deepening despair at a debased continuity overtakes the narrator with a fervent wish for escape from the reflective, iterative nature of life's masks and facades — where echoes of past events determines one's arbitrary and impersonal fate reverberating throughout time and space, mixing with his inner visions into an oroboros of dualistic imagery.
the inescapable vision of the woman whose eyes torments him as the death awareness takes root in his heart — an unshakeable truth he can only escape in moments of drug induced ecstacy, which leads backwards through time and into a deepening hallucinatory madness.
the prose is layered with poetic symbolism — fragmented and displayed in shifting transmutations as a deepening despair at a debased continuity overtakes the narrator with a fervent wish for escape from the reflective, iterative nature of life's masks and facades — where echoes of past events determines one's arbitrary and impersonal fate reverberating throughout time and space, mixing with his inner visions into an oroboros of dualistic imagery.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny
Really not my thing and hard to stomach, but incredibly well written for the most part
اولین باری که این کتاب رو خوندم ۱۵ سال داشتم. یادمه به اواسط داستان که رسیدم، کتاب رو کنار گذاشتم چون انگار چیزی متوجه نمی‌شدم. این دفعه که برای بار دوم شروع به خوندن کتاب کردم، یک لحظه هم نمی‌خواستم کتاب رو زمین بذارم و بعد از تموم شدنش کتاب رو بستم و چند دقیقه حس می‌کردم که گیج شدم و انگار هیچ کاری نمی‌تونستم انجام بدم.
به احتمال خیلی زیاد شروع می‌کنم به خوندن تفسیر دکتر شمیسا، و شاید بعد از اون دوباره کتاب رو بخونم.
به احتمال خیلی زیاد شروع می‌کنم به خوندن تفسیر دکتر شمیسا، و شاید بعد از اون دوباره کتاب رو بخونم.