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A review by lkthomas07
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
3.0
I don’t read many books that have been translated, so I feel like that in itself caused me to take a star off - more on me than the book itself.
The setting was lovely and I enjoyed how the book was written. I just wanted more. I had a lot of unanswered questions in the end.
I only picked this up bc I saw one line from it in a fanfic and it sounded just so lovely. I wasn’t let down on that end!
This was the quote, “People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they know you, but they do not, they know about you, for what they are let in on are facts, not feelings, not what your opinion is about anything at all, not how what has happened to you and how all the decisions you have made have turned you into who you are. What they do is they fill in with their own feelings and opinions and assumptions, and they compose a new life which has precious little to do with yours, and that lets you off the hook. No-one can touch you unless you yourself want them to.”
The setting was lovely and I enjoyed how the book was written. I just wanted more. I had a lot of unanswered questions in the end.
I only picked this up bc I saw one line from it in a fanfic and it sounded just so lovely. I wasn’t let down on that end!
This was the quote, “People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they know you, but they do not, they know about you, for what they are let in on are facts, not feelings, not what your opinion is about anything at all, not how what has happened to you and how all the decisions you have made have turned you into who you are. What they do is they fill in with their own feelings and opinions and assumptions, and they compose a new life which has precious little to do with yours, and that lets you off the hook. No-one can touch you unless you yourself want them to.”