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i still have a playlist called please open the curtains and i've got a degree in english literature now
this book is infinitely funnier if you choose to believe bromden is always 100% correct. even if you dont you still cry in a cafe nero.
A bit one-note anti-Trump at points but a very good alt history dystopia
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In the seminar for this book there was a great moment where me and the girl next to me suddenly realised not everyone else had connected with it like we had, which is fair when you consider Anna Kavan is a woman who had a heroin-adjacent psychotic break that caused her to rename herself after one of her own characters.
200 brilliant pages of the kind of questioning you do when falling asleep as a kid too inquisitive for the adults around them
200 brilliant pages of the kind of questioning you do when falling asleep as a kid too inquisitive for the adults around them
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
never lets you feel comfortable. sexy enough that the scenes where sex becomes a horror device sting
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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Only read The Aspern Papers, which is a pretty good meditation on how tourism and celebrity was changing in the late-19c. as Byron and Venice became synonymous. James does a lot of quite clever stuff without being massively polemic