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A review by hollowspine
Master of Reality by John Darnielle
5.0
I wish I had read this a long time ago. I wish I had read it when it was published back in 2008. So many times as I was reading it I kept wondering what someone else would have thought of it, I kept wanting to recommend it to him, but I missed my chance. This book is so wonderful and so sad and made me wish a million times that I could have had the chance to share it.
As I'm currently enrolled in a online course called, "Youth Matters" in which I'm supposedly learning the theories behind youth work and how to be an effective and good youth worker, I find this book more helpful to my understand than the class. The class actually makes me feel a lot like I did back in my own high school, discouraged, invisible an outsider who somehow misses something that is obvious to everyone else.
It was sometimes hard to read this book, but I could never turn away from it either, because it was so familiar to me. Which as a 'well-adjusted' kid who never got in trouble, never went against expectations, might be hard to understand, but I understood and I think others would too, and I wish I could recommend it to so many people. Mainly one person, I kept wondering if it is only my wishful thinking that I might have understood them in any way at all, but I do think this book would have been interesting to them and I wish they'd had it.
As I'm currently enrolled in a online course called, "Youth Matters" in which I'm supposedly learning the theories behind youth work and how to be an effective and good youth worker, I find this book more helpful to my understand than the class. The class actually makes me feel a lot like I did back in my own high school, discouraged, invisible an outsider who somehow misses something that is obvious to everyone else.
It was sometimes hard to read this book, but I could never turn away from it either, because it was so familiar to me. Which as a 'well-adjusted' kid who never got in trouble, never went against expectations, might be hard to understand, but I understood and I think others would too, and I wish I could recommend it to so many people. Mainly one person, I kept wondering if it is only my wishful thinking that I might have understood them in any way at all, but I do think this book would have been interesting to them and I wish they'd had it.