Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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Average rating3.2
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Ratings5
Average rating3.2
Zach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate. He's also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there. He's not sure he wants to remember. Something bad must have happened. Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive—well, what's up with that?I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes "Happy" and on some people's hearts he writes "Sad" and on some people's hearts he writes "Crazy" on some people's hearts he writes "Genius" and on some people's hearts he writes "Angry" and on some people's hearts he writes "Winner" and on some people's hearts he writes "Loser".It's all like a game to him. Him. God. And it's all pretty much random. He takes out his pen and starts writing on our blank hearts. When it came to my turn, he wrote. I don't like God very much. Apparently he doesn't like me very much either. Sad.
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Une très belle histoire sur un jeune homme alcoolique qui lutte contre ses démons. Sa relation avec son psychiatre et avec les autres résidents de l'hôpital où il est interné sont très touchantes et font tout le sel de ce roman très réussi.
*This book is basically if Holden Caulfield and Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower had a baby who went to rehab. Now as promising as that may sound, it ended up somewhat flopping in the actual construction and consistency of the book. There was absolutely no plot whatsoever; I love character-driven novels, but this was pushing it, even for me. Our main character, Zach, repeated the same few phrases over and over again, to the point where at least one showed up on every page. Overall it felt like a very repetitive book, and the characters didn't feel very distinct. Every character seemed to speak the same way as Zach which is just unrealistic. The writing, pacing, and overall construction was very sloppy.
All that being said, this book was still very meaningful to me. It had a lot of important things to say that I really identified with. It just ended up dragging and being much too long and repetitive. I just wish the novel had been of actual higher quality so I could give it a higher rating.
