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oh, existentialism meets Lord of the Flies in a fascinatingly sparse and twisted way.
finished this in about an hour, and will probably take days to process the whole thing.
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finished this in about an hour, and will probably take days to process the whole thing.
more to come, needless to say. ...more
OMG! This was distrubing but amazing. I picked it up because it was referenced as being a Lord Of The Flies for the 21st century. That's a pretty bold statement to live up to but the comparision was correct. Now, LOTF will always reign supreme but Nothing was a great book. It's a little slow going at the start but then midway through it picks up and had me on the edge of my seat. It might be a bit confusing for some because there's a lot of talk about meaning. Why are we here? What's life all ab
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Existentialism + Danish teens + Heap of Meaning = Horrifying. At the beginning of the school year, one student decides that nothing has meaning and climbs a plum tree to taunt the other students with plums and half baked nihilism. The students set out to prove him wrong by creating the Heap of Meaning. In the process, they lose their minds and turn into savages. I didn't think that any point was necessarily proven either way, and both sides were equally unlikable and without any true introspecti
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Disturbing, annoying, fascinating, thoughtful. I'll have to think about this one.
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