Leave the World Behind

The book is one of those stories with limited characters and settings that takes place over a short amount of time. I have a lot of respect for stories of that nature, but they're hard to pull off. I think if the story were written by someone else I'd have liked it more. There were too many unnecessary and unrelated references to sex and the writing style felt clunky. Stylistically I think I'd have enjoyed it more as a play (in an Arthur Miller way). I do want to say that I loved his vocab even if I didn't quite like his voice, it just feels reminiscent of 20th century writing. Overall the concept was good but needed to be executed better. I feel like if we got to the end of the hour, or even a scene with all the characters in one room, that would have really driven the story home. I'd say it was a page-turner but I wasn't really invested (but maybe I'm biased because the sex references were SO random it was just gross and offputting and my rating would've been a 3 otherwise). If I end up watching the Netflix movie I'll update my review and see if I like the story better as a movie.