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A review by kittylake
While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer
2.0
*2023 Longlist International Booker*
It's easy to draw comparisons with this and Trainspotting and Catcher in the Rye and Clockwork Orange... I guess I don't know why we need another book from a teenage boy misogynistic perspective on porn, sex and women (including littering the first 50 pages with enough descriptions of 13 year old girls tits to satisfy a paedo or immature boy)... there was the odd interesting moment but this book is almost 600 pages and lacks a soul. I found it dull and pointless. It was a long meandering tail about shitting boys growing into shitty men enjoying (mostly) behaving shittily to those around them. It's difficult to empathise or sympathise or just care. Ugh. What was the point of this? Maybe it's interesting if you're into the books I've compared it to or if you were also born around the mid-70s... I just didn't find this compelling or interesting.
It's easy to draw comparisons with this and Trainspotting and Catcher in the Rye and Clockwork Orange... I guess I don't know why we need another book from a teenage boy misogynistic perspective on porn, sex and women (including littering the first 50 pages with enough descriptions of 13 year old girls tits to satisfy a paedo or immature boy)... there was the odd interesting moment but this book is almost 600 pages and lacks a soul. I found it dull and pointless. It was a long meandering tail about shitting boys growing into shitty men enjoying (mostly) behaving shittily to those around them. It's difficult to empathise or sympathise or just care. Ugh. What was the point of this? Maybe it's interesting if you're into the books I've compared it to or if you were also born around the mid-70s... I just didn't find this compelling or interesting.