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This is the second Groff book I have read and, once again, I'm thrown into a whirlwind of feelings. I remember early in my marriage being told that marriage is less like a fairy-tale and more like a place of work (enjoyable, but still hard). That one wakes up every day and decides to be all-in that day.
That, ultimately, is what I saw in Fates and Furies. No one can create flawed, interesting, and outright beautiful characters like Groff can, these days. Groff takes care (sometimes overly so) to ...more
That, ultimately, is what I saw in Fates and Furies. No one can create flawed, interesting, and outright beautiful characters like Groff can, these days. Groff takes care (sometimes overly so) to ...more
I don't get it.
This was filled with awful awful people. These are miserable, depressed, lonely, scheming, smelly people. This book is so depressing I had to stop reading it at one point and go downstairs to eat cookies and cuddle my dogs.
Of course real life is filled with awful people too. But this was a book. A cleverly crafted "literary masterpiece," so I expected it to have a point. I thought at the end there would be some twist, some connection, some "aha" moment that would make it all make ...more
This was filled with awful awful people. These are miserable, depressed, lonely, scheming, smelly people. This book is so depressing I had to stop reading it at one point and go downstairs to eat cookies and cuddle my dogs.
Of course real life is filled with awful people too. But this was a book. A cleverly crafted "literary masterpiece," so I expected it to have a point. I thought at the end there would be some twist, some connection, some "aha" moment that would make it all make ...more
Before reading this book, I read a few reviews about this book because it topped a lot of best books lists. Most people seem to like the first part, following Lotto's self-centered point of view of his life and marriage. But the second part, from Mathilde's raw point of view, was the best part of this book for me. The contrast between the two really illustrates how different perspectives of the same events can be and how we don't know the people around us. I love the idea presented that we creat
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A challenging read, but not because of the prose but because of the lies of omission that snake through the grass in this book. Chaos, loneliness and fear drive many of the interactions in the second half to the point that it feels like a different book. Overall I'm glad I read it but I'm still unsettled.
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I see you there, Ulysses reference in the last sentence.
(Yeah, this was really gorgeously written; guess it deserves all those accolades.)
(Yeah, this was really gorgeously written; guess it deserves all those accolades.)
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