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A review by girlpdf
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
4.75
michael ondaatje you have to stop. YOU HAVE TO STOP!!!!!!!! you have to stop. it's getting to be too much now. you can't keep writing the most beautiful sentence in the world over and over again for upwards of a hundred pages. it's getting too crazy. i'm getting too crazy.
yet another book with the feverish clarity of caravaggio (the painter, not the character ondaatje named after him, although isn't that indicative…) what i mean is he writes in the language of chiaroscuro. the light is so clarifying it almost blinds you; the dark so deep it takes on colour. ondaatje was made to write about jazz. i'm kind of cut that he hasn't written about it since.
without the sprawling narratives of his other work, i couldn't quite tip it up to five. but it's focused and intense and empathetic to all the real subjects of his narrative, a fine illustration of the truth of fiction. i love this freaking author so much i can hardly stand him!!!!!!
yet another book with the feverish clarity of caravaggio (the painter, not the character ondaatje named after him, although isn't that indicative…) what i mean is he writes in the language of chiaroscuro. the light is so clarifying it almost blinds you; the dark so deep it takes on colour. ondaatje was made to write about jazz. i'm kind of cut that he hasn't written about it since.
without the sprawling narratives of his other work, i couldn't quite tip it up to five. but it's focused and intense and empathetic to all the real subjects of his narrative, a fine illustration of the truth of fiction. i love this freaking author so much i can hardly stand him!!!!!!