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cherry__bomb 's review for:
Lie with Me
by Philippe Besson
4.5.
so beautiful and intimate. it really feels like reading a stranger's annotations to a lover in a secondhand book, wondering how it ended up discarded and seeing a piece of someone that was never exposed to you. the prose is easy to read (i really wish i can read in the original french and i hope i can do so soon) but it's still so vivid and striking. there is a repetition i find unnecessary but i think that might be to really settle in that nostalgia. i don't mind it much. the second half falls flat compared to the first half for me but i think that's moreso because the first half is just that good. otherwise this is just a beautiful meditation on queerness in the past and present, in fiction and in reality. i feel if i reread with complete context this might be a 5 star, considering i devoured it in less than a day, but who knows
so beautiful and intimate. it really feels like reading a stranger's annotations to a lover in a secondhand book, wondering how it ended up discarded and seeing a piece of someone that was never exposed to you. the prose is easy to read (i really wish i can read in the original french and i hope i can do so soon) but it's still so vivid and striking. there is a repetition i find unnecessary but i think that might be to really settle in that nostalgia. i don't mind it much. the second half falls flat compared to the first half for me but i think that's moreso because the first half is just that good. otherwise this is just a beautiful meditation on queerness in the past and present, in fiction and in reality. i feel if i reread with complete context this might be a 5 star, considering i devoured it in less than a day, but who knows