Gabe
I’ll be thinking about this book, its themes, ideas, and conflicts for a long time. Its relevance is astonishing. It’s grim on grim on grim on grim, and then somehow hopeful? I’m not sure the whole thing was well executed, the writing style was almost lazy, definitely unrealistic and at times distracting. The complexity of the familial relationships will keep me up at night. The search for purpose, the need for and maintenance of community, and the personal sacrifices and potential interpersonal harm that it causes, or seems to cause, in an individualistic era is so agonising, both intellectually and emotionally. I wish it were just a bit better written, and perhaps a bit less excessively violent at times. A great not excellent sequel to the first instalment.
I’ll be thinking about this book, its themes, ideas, and conflicts for a long time. Its relevance is astonishing. It’s grim on grim on grim on grim, and then somehow hopeful? I’m not sure the whole thing was well executed, the writing style was almost lazy, definitely unrealistic and at times distracting. The complexity of the familial relationships will keep me up at night. The search for purpose, the need for and maintenance of community, and the personal sacrifices and potential interpersonal harm that it causes, or seems to cause, in an individualistic era is so agonising, both intellectually and emotionally. I wish it were just a bit better written, and perhaps a bit less excessively violent at times. A great not excellent sequel to the first instalment.