homophelia's review against another edition
5.0
I think this book is the literary fiction version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I feel more emotionally moved by it than I probably should. It's like enjoying a warm cup of cocoa in a messy home office. I recommend it for people who are okay with being average and aren't committed to linear timelines.
psychprofreads's review against another edition
4.0
I should say upfront that there may very well be some consciously unconscious bias to my words here as Chris Boucher is my MFA advisor. How bold of me to review a book by a man whom I'll be hanging out with in a month's time? who may very well have my grades and future in his hands? I probably wouldn't be so ballsy if I didn't have such a high opinion of this book. If this book is any indication to how his mind works, it's safe to say he wouldn't give a shit about my words here anyway. All the more reason I CAN'T WAIT to spend time with him.
But four stars? Why four stars then? Is it to not seem so overtly a bootlicker? Nah. It's reflective of my experience with this book -- so incredibly unlike any other I have read. I couldn't DEVOUR this book. I had to read it story by story, and slowly, at that, with time in between each because they were so very unique. I needed time to process each, to sit with each. Because each story is so surrealist/metaphorical, I couldn't easily jump from one to the next. And that, of course, is not a bad thing. It was so -- weird! -- that it needed effortful processing and I felt like I needed a little reality in between.
But what's a book if it doesn't challenge you, get you thinking, keeping you engaged?
(See you soon, prof!)
But four stars? Why four stars then? Is it to not seem so overtly a bootlicker? Nah. It's reflective of my experience with this book -- so incredibly unlike any other I have read. I couldn't DEVOUR this book. I had to read it story by story, and slowly, at that, with time in between each because they were so very unique. I needed time to process each, to sit with each. Because each story is so surrealist/metaphorical, I couldn't easily jump from one to the next. And that, of course, is not a bad thing. It was so -- weird! -- that it needed effortful processing and I felt like I needed a little reality in between.
But what's a book if it doesn't challenge you, get you thinking, keeping you engaged?
(See you soon, prof!)
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