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A review by mjao
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
4.5
Reread for the first time since I was like fourteen and it still hits so hard...Billy !!! :'((
Not really a comedy so much as a super bleak and depressing farce. So so good as a psycho-social character study, honestly like the best and most personally relatable depiction of having an anxiety disorder (yes I'm diagnosing him with this) I've ever read. The narrative voice captures the hysterical pitch of this particular blend of compulsion, obsession, guilt and avoidance so well! First chapter made me cry.
-0,5 for being pretty misogynistic unfortunately...
Not really a comedy so much as a super bleak and depressing farce. So so good as a psycho-social character study, honestly like the best and most personally relatable depiction of having an anxiety disorder (yes I'm diagnosing him with this) I've ever read. The narrative voice captures the hysterical pitch of this particular blend of compulsion, obsession, guilt and avoidance so well! First chapter made me cry.
-0,5 for being pretty misogynistic unfortunately...