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A review by leakaroo
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Did not finish book. Stopped at 38%.
DNF- This book is really not for me! I will give merit to Lockwood for clearly knowing the ins and outs of how social media works. Plus her writing isn't childish or anything, it's actually quite good and poetic. I can see why people like this and I can see how it got shortlisted for the Booker.
I just personally don't enjoy the layout or the direction she took with this. I do get that it's meant to imitate short twitter posts, or the unease when you're watching Tiktok and one moment there's a post about a funny dog, and the next is some devastating war news. Even though I get why the writing is set up like this, the execution was just not there for me. I was really trying to push through until the end of this book, but kept struggling to keep up with what the author was saying because the jumps are so quick and you have to completely rearrange yourself every time. It's just to the point where it's really not enjoyable and I couldn't cling to anything. Plus just found it soooo boring!!!
If I had finished it I probably would've rated it like 2 stars or 2.5.
I just personally don't enjoy the layout or the direction she took with this. I do get that it's meant to imitate short twitter posts, or the unease when you're watching Tiktok and one moment there's a post about a funny dog, and the next is some devastating war news. Even though I get why the writing is set up like this, the execution was just not there for me. I was really trying to push through until the end of this book, but kept struggling to keep up with what the author was saying because the jumps are so quick and you have to completely rearrange yourself every time. It's just to the point where it's really not enjoyable and I couldn't cling to anything. Plus just found it soooo boring!!!
If I had finished it I probably would've rated it like 2 stars or 2.5.