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Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
I could not finish this book. My mental state right now is not conducive to the type of dread this book emanates.
Jude, a death metal musician whose wife left him because he is a deeply damaged m... a... person. She did the right thing, I know how hard it is sometimes to make this effort and leave instead of pretending that you have hope and not at all just too tired to make the move. After his wife left, Jude went through a number of very young fans, one of whom killed herself, and now he and the only two people he has a semblance of a relationship with are being haunted by the dead woman's equally dead stepfather.
I was ready for Jude to be dead by page 12. He's just this kind of a guy. A guy, who doesn't like subservience. In a man. But that's not the reason I couldn't finish the book. I managed almost a half, but the constant dread and just general unpleasantness of absolutely everything in the book were depressing me. There are a lot of things to get depressed about these days, and I just had to bolt and find something more life-affirming to read. Maybe I'll come back to it when everything is peachy and sunshine and birds are singing and I need a bit of despair in my life.
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Jude, a death metal musician whose wife left him because he is a deeply damaged m... a... person. She did the right thing, I know how hard it is sometimes to make this effort and leave instead of pretending that you have hope and not at all just too tired to make the move. After his wife left, Jude went through a number of very young fans, one of whom killed herself, and now he and the only two people he has a semblance of a relationship with are being haunted by the dead woman's equally dead stepfather.
I was ready for Jude to be dead by page 12. He's just this kind of a guy. A guy, who doesn't like subservience. In a man. But that's not the reason I couldn't finish the book. I managed almost a half, but the constant dread and just general unpleasantness of absolutely everything in the book were depressing me. There are a lot of things to get depressed about these days, and I just had to bolt and find something more life-affirming to read. Maybe I'll come back to it when everything is peachy and sunshine and birds are singing and I need a bit of despair in my life.