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dana_para's review against another edition
4.0
Good book, insightful psychology of women, nicely written. A bit too dramatic around the edges.
amittaizero's review against another edition
3.0
"The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything."
So says Leon, as he descends into madness by way of loving another man's wife. Of course, he could have married her himself had he not paralyzed himself with his "scepticism."
This is the first book I've read in roughly two years -- maybe more? The pandemic and all its attendant horrors undermined my desire to do much of anything, let alone read. Because what's the point of reading?
I still find it to be a pointless exercise. Futile. Who gains anything by it? Do people improve? We continue to brutalize one another as ever. So why read?
Clearly, I'm enormously depressed. What a world. But I did read at least one book this year -- although I used to read 50-75 each year. But that was in my almost manic desire to make sense of the cruelty and suffering of late-capitalist America.
Did I find an answer? No.
As the band Dangers puts it: "There are no answers but the sun, the sun, the sun."
And someday that sun will swallow this tiny rock and, hopefully, humanity will have long since disappeared.
So says Leon, as he descends into madness by way of loving another man's wife. Of course, he could have married her himself had he not paralyzed himself with his "scepticism."
This is the first book I've read in roughly two years -- maybe more? The pandemic and all its attendant horrors undermined my desire to do much of anything, let alone read. Because what's the point of reading?
I still find it to be a pointless exercise. Futile. Who gains anything by it? Do people improve? We continue to brutalize one another as ever. So why read?
Clearly, I'm enormously depressed. What a world. But I did read at least one book this year -- although I used to read 50-75 each year. But that was in my almost manic desire to make sense of the cruelty and suffering of late-capitalist America.
Did I find an answer? No.
As the band Dangers puts it: "There are no answers but the sun, the sun, the sun."
And someday that sun will swallow this tiny rock and, hopefully, humanity will have long since disappeared.
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