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A review by veganlasagne
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2.75
I don't think I'm a big enough art bro to understand this book, sadly.
The formatting made me want to DNF several times. I've never read a book like it which was mostly the driving force that spurred me on to finish it and ultimately challenge myself.
It's uniquely written in a stream of consciousness type format. Which is clever but meant that reading it took up 100% of my brain capacity, and even then I wasn't sure what was going on.
No speech marks meant that conversations have to be re-read again and again to understand who's talking. Did my head in.
The story itself is harrowing and the ending is brutal but the writing style completely killed it off for me.
The formatting made me want to DNF several times. I've never read a book like it which was mostly the driving force that spurred me on to finish it and ultimately challenge myself.
It's uniquely written in a stream of consciousness type format. Which is clever but meant that reading it took up 100% of my brain capacity, and even then I wasn't sure what was going on.
No speech marks meant that conversations have to be re-read again and again to understand who's talking. Did my head in.
The story itself is harrowing and the ending is brutal but the writing style completely killed it off for me.