mastercabs 's review for:

A Mad Desire to Dance by Elie Wiesel

1.0

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Okay. I am abiding by my 20% rule. I read a fifth of this book and hated it. I've read books like this that do a sort of poetry as narrative and did it well. This was not one of them. Wiesel wants us to see what Doriel sees, feel what he feels. It's a narrative that tells you what to think and feel because it can't show you. How do we talk about madness? Well, if you have no background in neuroscience, it's pretty easy to get into mysticism. I tried to imagine some of the conversations between Doriel and the women he meets, and they just sounded like teenagers trying to out-emo each other. Maybe, it gets better. Maybe, it doesn't. If you don't have me by twenty percent of the way through the book, I have ceased to care.