andika's review against another edition
4.0
at one page i understood everything on the next i was lost again, and so on until the last one. I think parts of it were brilliant but here and there a tiny bit dragged.
tuxedofries's review against another edition
5.0
An amazing book with a clear underlining of psychological and moral grounds in which we discuses and understand human behavior.
smokingchagga's review against another edition
3.0
This has been such a strange ride. Most of the stuff that went down definitely went over my head but I think that may have been the point. I'm just shook.
h1914's review against another edition
3.0
"A sensual, burning wind is blowing around us. I do not know precisely when it began. In the force of the wind and in the heat I seem to have lost my sense of time. But in any case I realize too that the direction of the wind will probably change. Suddenly it will turn into a cool westerly wind. And then this hot wind will be stripped away from my skin like a mirage, and I shall not even be able to recollect it[...] The important thing is not the end. The thing to consider is the reality of your feeling the fiery wind on your skin. The denouement is not the problem. Now the fiery wind itself is important. In this fiery wind words and sensations that have been asleep give out a blue light as if they possess high-voltage electricity[...] In the pain of this fiery wind a physical transformation that will not disappear until I die is effected on me."
usaidyousaf's review against another edition
2.0
Honestly had no idea what was going on 40% of the time but still enjoyed the ride
geoluhread's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
friendlylobotomy's review against another edition
dark
funny
mysterious
5.0
Do you know that episode of SpongeBob SquarePants where he and his friend Patrick find an old cardboard box and sit inside the box using their IMAGINATION to create fun adventures? There's nothing in the box but with the power of their minds they're able to build these wonderful fantasy worlds.
If you take that episode and explore some of the darker, more troubling elements of living inside of a box, like losing track of reality, contemplating -- sort of horrifically, sort of beautifully -- the ideas of voyeurism and shame and loneliness and death, then essentially you'll have a pretty good idea of what this book is all about.
If you take that episode and explore some of the darker, more troubling elements of living inside of a box, like losing track of reality, contemplating -- sort of horrifically, sort of beautifully -- the ideas of voyeurism and shame and loneliness and death, then essentially you'll have a pretty good idea of what this book is all about.
bubble0nex's review
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
wtf
nickfourtimes's review against another edition
3.0
1) ''This is the record of a box man.
I am beginning this account in a box. A cardboard box that reaches just to my hips when I put it on over my head.
That is to say, at this juncture the box man is me. A box man, in his box, is recording the chronicle of a box man.''
2) ''The clothes she had removed lay in lumps at her feet. On the nurse's white uniform the tiny black undies stretched out like a dead spider.''
3) ''The reason men somehow go on living, enduring the gaze of others, is that they bargain on the hallucinations and the inexactitude of human eyes. By putting on clothes that as much as possible are identical and by having similar hairdos they manage to make it difficult to distinguish between one another. If I don't give a straight look, then the other person won't either; and one ends up leading a life of lowered glances. Thus long ago the punishment known as the pillory used to be used, but it was said to be too cruel and was discontinued in enlightened societies. That the act of spying on someone else is generally looked upon with scorn is because, I suppose, one does not want to be on the side of being seen.''
I am beginning this account in a box. A cardboard box that reaches just to my hips when I put it on over my head.
That is to say, at this juncture the box man is me. A box man, in his box, is recording the chronicle of a box man.''
2) ''The clothes she had removed lay in lumps at her feet. On the nurse's white uniform the tiny black undies stretched out like a dead spider.''
3) ''The reason men somehow go on living, enduring the gaze of others, is that they bargain on the hallucinations and the inexactitude of human eyes. By putting on clothes that as much as possible are identical and by having similar hairdos they manage to make it difficult to distinguish between one another. If I don't give a straight look, then the other person won't either; and one ends up leading a life of lowered glances. Thus long ago the punishment known as the pillory used to be used, but it was said to be too cruel and was discontinued in enlightened societies. That the act of spying on someone else is generally looked upon with scorn is because, I suppose, one does not want to be on the side of being seen.''