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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
Okay. I cannot speak about this book without first bringing up my reading experience. So I'll start there:
I would pick up this book, thrust it down in horror and disgust, then it would HAUNT me. I would bring it up to friends like "you won't believe what book I was just reading", I was looking for reviews on goodreads, and I wanted a discussion with the author herself. I wanted grounding, I wanted a "why", and more than it all--I wanted to put it to rest. This book gave me the deepest need for closure.
Did I ever get closure? I think so...? Maybe?
My biggest complaint? The pacing of the end! From the big moment to the dissolution, that was just a few pages where the rest felt so PATIENT.
From there, I struggle with my other complaints being valid or if it was the point? Like who am I to say that I was disgusted and uncomfortable? Who am I to feel horrified at these bodies? Who am I to want nothing to do with the "other"? Ugh... I think this worked for me. I think this is what Moshfegh wishes she could be.
I would pick up this book, thrust it down in horror and disgust, then it would HAUNT me. I would bring it up to friends like "you won't believe what book I was just reading", I was looking for reviews on goodreads, and I wanted a discussion with the author herself. I wanted grounding, I wanted a "why", and more than it all--I wanted to put it to rest. This book gave me the deepest need for closure.
Did I ever get closure? I think so...? Maybe?
My biggest complaint? The pacing of the end! From the big moment to the dissolution, that was just a few pages where the rest felt so PATIENT.
From there, I struggle with my other complaints being valid or if it was the point? Like who am I to say that I was disgusted and uncomfortable? Who am I to feel horrified at these bodies? Who am I to want nothing to do with the "other"? Ugh... I think this worked for me. I think this is what Moshfegh wishes she could be.