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gripping... not really a fiction reader but chang-rae lee's native speaker opened me inside out so you know how it is. hata in this book reminds me a lot of park from the native speaker. they're both assimilators by nature, while not being able to sustain connection to anything. excellent at assimilation, horrible at connection, what makes the difference? thank you chang-rae lee for your thoughts on the matter...
i have many thoughts but so unorganized... it's just so thrilling, lee's writing. the haunting, reconciliation, childhood, doom, and belonging. there's a morality to everyone, in a different way than, like idk, the hunger games when you wonder who will survive to the end of the book, just that we're always aware of whose heart is beating, still beating. but i just realized that's in the title, yes? life. a gesture life...
i remain in awe of lee's narration, his use of narrative... this book literally feels like a sleepless night and at the same time being heavily sedated under a deep slumber all the time. im ILL im literally ILL like he should not he able to do any of that. ALSO hes really funny and it's not a funny book but like there are moments . there are moments. every time i talk about him i feel like im rachel bloom fuck me ray bradbury
Quote: I know you dream of one but it doesn’t exist. This time won’t end. It will end for you, but not for me.
gripping... not really a fiction reader but chang-rae lee's native speaker opened me inside out so you know how it is. hata in this book reminds me a lot of park from the native speaker. they're both assimilators by nature, while not being able to sustain connection to anything. excellent at assimilation, horrible at connection, what makes the difference? thank you chang-rae lee for your thoughts on the matter...
i have many thoughts but so unorganized... it's just so thrilling, lee's writing. the haunting, reconciliation, childhood, doom, and belonging. there's a morality to everyone, in a different way than, like idk, the hunger games when you wonder who will survive to the end of the book, just that we're always aware of whose heart is beating, still beating. but i just realized that's in the title, yes? life. a gesture life...
i remain in awe of lee's narration, his use of narrative... this book literally feels like a sleepless night and at the same time being heavily sedated under a deep slumber all the time. im ILL im literally ILL like he should not he able to do any of that. ALSO hes really funny and it's not a funny book but like there are moments . there are moments. every time i talk about him i feel like im rachel bloom fuck me ray bradbury
Quote: I know you dream of one but it doesn’t exist. This time won’t end. It will end for you, but not for me.