MsA
Contains spoilers
I really enjoyed reading this book! The themes of grief really resonated with me but more than anything I really enjoyed the WRITING. The way he describes certain scenes:
AN EXAMPLE:
Actually, it feels more like flat-out, Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky denial. But there are some things, no matter if they’re true, you can’t live with them. You have to refuse them. You turn your eyes away from whatever’s squatting right there in front of you and not only pretend it isn’t there now, but that you never saw it in the first place. You do so because your soul is a frail thing that can’t stand the blast-furnace heat of revelation, and truth be damned. What else can a body do?
I LOVE that. I love reading feelings that I had have but never had the words to express that reality you know? and the book is full of that! NICE
I will admit (and where 1.5 deduction is coming from) Part 2 takes A BIT. it took SUCH a bit I almost didn't finish the book. I glad I kept at it, soon it picked up again, and I started to absorb the setting couldn't put it down!
THEN PART 3- and this line here
His story done, Howard seemed relieved, as if that burden I’d sensed behind his words at the beginning of his tale had passed from him. I felt oddly disoriented, disconnected from the diner’s chrome and glass, the way you do after you’ve finished a book or movie in which you’ve been absorbed and which hasn’t loosened its hold on you.
IUNNO maybe I'm CORNY AF but I LIVE for that shit, being able to experience the same feelings as the main character but for a meta reality reason
Note: I do not know if that ^^ was intentional from the author. especially since part of what fuel that was me taking so long to finish Part 2-PART 2 kinda became the reason I'm reading the book? and low-key high-key forgot about the initial protagonist so when I read part 3 i got brain blast with OH YA that was being told to US and then you read that line? be serious fucking cinema
Part 3 was everything Part 1 was, but NOW after reading lovely prose-steeped in dread.
I'm always happy when I finished a book and felt better for the experience. IT WAS GREAT.
It was a fun read. Main Character was my favorite story. I really related to bee alot, and it put words some of the feelings I had when I was at that age and being part of groups, and wanting to (heh) reject the box society so nicely place in front of me. there is a frustration that I thought was more personal but reading make me feel less alone.
It was very entertaining, and that's all I could ask for.
