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ingridostby's review against another edition
2.0
I appreciate what's been done here but it was a bit too much like reading my friends' Facebook statuses when they were in mental crises (I say this as someone who has mental illness and understands it and experiences it within my family). It was not for me, and I did not find it compelling as a story beyond a case study of a person's delusions.
grimondgalgmod's review against another edition
4.0
Plath meets Jodorowsky. Super relatable as I too sought to vanquish the hypnotic effects of evil through hermeticism, but then got laid instead.
alectastic's review against another edition
3.0
"I don't accept your force, the power of any of you, against me; I want my freedom to act and think; I hate and reject your hypnotic forces."
In the hurried but vivid work, there is both an element of dizziness and control. The scenes blur, yet are conveyed in such a manner that brings strange clarity. It takes courage to understand her. Carrington writes detached but writes of some of the most electrified experiences and feelings. Her mind is chaotic with symbols and color, fully explosive, but she describes her own madness like it were a science.
In the hurried but vivid work, there is both an element of dizziness and control. The scenes blur, yet are conveyed in such a manner that brings strange clarity. It takes courage to understand her. Carrington writes detached but writes of some of the most electrified experiences and feelings. Her mind is chaotic with symbols and color, fully explosive, but she describes her own madness like it were a science.
emilytracy's review against another edition
4.0
Ok I've marinated on this one a little bit. Carrington writes her mental illness as a memory, a logic that makes both perfect and negative sense. I want a biography of her nownownow. There are phrases from this that will not leave me alone. Memoir's haunted and self-scrutinizing cousin.
katlouisee's review against another edition
5.0
Harrowing in places but an incredibly interesting and insightful read
fauxbutch's review
5.0
If you read this book and your takeaway was that it’s “cooky” or you “don’t get the point” I don’t know what’s wrong with you lmao this is an actual account of Leonora’s life, and her real lived experience of psychosis. What is wrong with people