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A review by bannerheldhigh
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
informative
reflective
slow-paced
1.25
I wanted to really like this book and had hoped to learn something or find some insight and while I can absolutely respect someone allowing themselves to be vulnerable, all I found was a person who seemed frankly horrible to people around her.
Her self obsession and need for superiority were difficult to read and the therapist interviews, being only excerpts lacked any kind of depth so you could form a decent understanding of what was going on in this person's life. Mostly what we learned was how she'd slept between sessions, how her medications were affecting her and that she had some new social situation she had hyper-fixated on in the intervening weeks.
The epilogues were bizarre; mentioning people, events and feelings not brought up elsewhere in the book and just felt cliched.
Perhaps something was lost in the translation and I appreciate I don't know a great deal about Korean culture to perhaps understand some of the social conventions but still, highly disappointing.
Her self obsession and need for superiority were difficult to read and the therapist interviews, being only excerpts lacked any kind of depth so you could form a decent understanding of what was going on in this person's life. Mostly what we learned was how she'd slept between sessions, how her medications were affecting her and that she had some new social situation she had hyper-fixated on in the intervening weeks.
The epilogues were bizarre; mentioning people, events and feelings not brought up elsewhere in the book and just felt cliched.
Perhaps something was lost in the translation and I appreciate I don't know a great deal about Korean culture to perhaps understand some of the social conventions but still, highly disappointing.