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A review by kunkakuna
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
2.0
1.5/5
“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.”
The autor must be really into incest and terminal diseases, because almost every story in this collection is centered around at least one of these themes.
The stories seem to have a beginning, a body, but no discernible ending. I couldn’t figure out which ones were intertwined and which ones were separate pieces.
The whole read was confusing and, frankly, debilitating (call me what you may but I don’t enjoy reading misery porn and/or incestuous love stories).
But to Bloom’s defense - there were a few good passages and the writing itself wasn’t half bad. The plot on the other hand… I don’t think I need to comment on it any more than I already have.
“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.”
The autor must be really into incest and terminal diseases, because almost every story in this collection is centered around at least one of these themes.
The stories seem to have a beginning, a body, but no discernible ending. I couldn’t figure out which ones were intertwined and which ones were separate pieces.
The whole read was confusing and, frankly, debilitating (call me what you may but I don’t enjoy reading misery porn and/or incestuous love stories).
But to Bloom’s defense - there were a few good passages and the writing itself wasn’t half bad. The plot on the other hand… I don’t think I need to comment on it any more than I already have.