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I liked the structure of this novel, which follows a man whose mother had disappeared when he was a young boy. He finds her, and joins her on the farm where she's working, which they eventually escape from. The way it moved back and forth in time worked really well. There was also a sly narrative trick that came into play - you think you know who the narrator is, but slowly it dawns on you that it's someone else. There are also some interesting changes in language for some of the characters. Ove
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Why, she asked, if all these small things we do, all this work that gets dumped on us day after day, if all our love and our attachments mean absolutely nothing and everything will eventually get incinerated, why do we bother to do anything? Is there any reason to keep on living Is that why it's better to smoke our lives away, why oblivion and death seem to call to us continually, like they're summoning us home? How do we do it? How do we go on?
Really intense novel about blackness, racism, lynch ...more
3.5 stars.
Wow.. just when I thought I won't read any weirder narrators - then here comes Scotty, the DRUGS. Yep. A crazy story about addicts narrated by the drugs itself. How WEIRD is this? But pretty brilliant, actually. This book made me think of the culture of drugs in America and how people chose to live in their hell instead of facing the real world. It's intense, it's crazy, but honestly, a bit satisfying read indeed. ...more
Wow.. just when I thought I won't read any weirder narrators - then here comes Scotty, the DRUGS. Yep. A crazy story about addicts narrated by the drugs itself. How WEIRD is this? But pretty brilliant, actually. This book made me think of the culture of drugs in America and how people chose to live in their hell instead of facing the real world. It's intense, it's crazy, but honestly, a bit satisfying read indeed. ...more
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