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The House of Sleep
by Jonathan Coe
First and for most you have to know something about this book. It contains horrific animal cruelty.
And I mean absolutely horrific. If I had known this I would not have picked the book up. I certainly couldn’t read it after a few sentences . It made me feel sick and very upset. I have an incredibly low tolerance for animal cruelty and I couldn’t bear it.
It’s a good book but that override everything and was too much for me.
I remember reading another one of his that also had extreme animal cruelty that to this day I can’t get out of my head. It really upset me and although the book was 5 stars I wish I hadn’t read it. I feel the same way about this book. Sometimes I need to shield myself from horrible things and although it’s a fascinating book. Those few pages are something I wish I hadn’t read because I’m not capable of dealing with them.
it definitely needs a trigger warning
One of the redeeming sections is the article with the incorrect footnotes. That is a great bit of fun writing and almost completely at odds with the rest of the book, to the point where it works.
However. All I could think was, you know what’s going on right now and not a part of you feels like you need to put a stop to it. Your quite happy to let the ‘experiment’ go on and not give it a second thought?
It was too much for me, and I don’t think it was necessary to the story at all. I’m actually fairly angry about it. I’ll end up with nightmares over something that wasn’t required for the plot. Without that I’d have given it 3 stars but I can only give it 2 because it’s going to stay with me for all the wrong reasons.
And I mean absolutely horrific. If I had known this I would not have picked the book up. I certainly couldn’t read it after a few sentences . It made me feel sick and very upset. I have an incredibly low tolerance for animal cruelty and I couldn’t bear it.
It’s a good book but that override everything and was too much for me.
I remember reading another one of his that also had extreme animal cruelty that to this day I can’t get out of my head. It really upset me and although the book was 5 stars I wish I hadn’t read it. I feel the same way about this book. Sometimes I need to shield myself from horrible things and although it’s a fascinating book. Those few pages are something I wish I hadn’t read because I’m not capable of dealing with them.
it definitely needs a trigger warning
One of the redeeming sections is the article with the incorrect footnotes. That is a great bit of fun writing and almost completely at odds with the rest of the book, to the point where it works.
However. All I could think was, you know what’s going on right now and not a part of you feels like you need to put a stop to it. Your quite happy to let the ‘experiment’ go on and not give it a second thought?
It was too much for me, and I don’t think it was necessary to the story at all. I’m actually fairly angry about it. I’ll end up with nightmares over something that wasn’t required for the plot. Without that I’d have given it 3 stars but I can only give it 2 because it’s going to stay with me for all the wrong reasons.