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liddosophie 's review for:
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
some of these are quotes/ some just thoughts
i love the language though there were def bits that were hard to read and parts where i had to put the book down.. ugh this book is so so good
...
from my notes app:
"feeling only for the past and turning our gaze from the future, swimmers doing the backstroke towards a waterfall"
"im not letting anyone eat this mango for free, Communism or no communism"- the sex worker hahah
the death of the wife and the baby
like Yin and Yang?
ms mori i think im falling in love with u OMG
the squid? help
"Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even
nonconsensual squid? Not so much." IM GONNA THROW UP
"For me, the professor was a walking mind, and to see him as a body, or having a body, was still descomfitting"
"Lan swallowed a fistful of sleeping pills. Thankfully she had a small fist."
"I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient"
(Coppola reference)
"The workmates I met later that night in the hotel bar were less thrilled about the weather, none of them having ever been mugged by the full-force humidity of a tropical climate."
the cemetery/ his moms second grave getting blown up, along with him like OMG
american innocence
Ms Mori and Sonny?? omg my heart
"but the combination of all three arrested my heart altogether and beat it with the vigor of a Los Angeles police squad."
that one paragraph with all the things to remember
the western man creating cleavage
made in the likeness of God/ murder
the misrepresented Viet Cong in the movie lol bon is right!
the general being like our daughter cant be with your kind (a bastard)
"For defense, in place of bulletproof vests and helmets, each of us was given a laminated, wallet-sized picture of the Virgin Mary to wear over our hearts."
omgeee the commandant
chapter 19
i love the language though there were def bits that were hard to read and parts where i had to put the book down.. ugh this book is so so good
...
from my notes app:
"feeling only for the past and turning our gaze from the future, swimmers doing the backstroke towards a waterfall"
"im not letting anyone eat this mango for free, Communism or no communism"- the sex worker hahah
the death of the wife and the baby
like Yin and Yang?
ms mori i think im falling in love with u OMG
the squid? help
"Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even
nonconsensual squid? Not so much." IM GONNA THROW UP
"For me, the professor was a walking mind, and to see him as a body, or having a body, was still descomfitting"
"Lan swallowed a fistful of sleeping pills. Thankfully she had a small fist."
"I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient"
(Coppola reference)
"The workmates I met later that night in the hotel bar were less thrilled about the weather, none of them having ever been mugged by the full-force humidity of a tropical climate."
the cemetery/ his moms second grave getting blown up, along with him like OMG
american innocence
Ms Mori and Sonny?? omg my heart
"but the combination of all three arrested my heart altogether and beat it with the vigor of a Los Angeles police squad."
that one paragraph with all the things to remember
the western man creating cleavage
made in the likeness of God/ murder
the misrepresented Viet Cong in the movie lol bon is right!
the general being like our daughter cant be with your kind (a bastard)
"For defense, in place of bulletproof vests and helmets, each of us was given a laminated, wallet-sized picture of the Virgin Mary to wear over our hearts."
omgeee the commandant
chapter 19