I read to page 67 in this book, gave up, had a mental breakdown, then read the sparknotes to understand what happened.
The summaries were for every chapter and I managed to understand the intentions of the author. I thought it was interesting, what the author tried to do. Although, I'm not sure if the fact I'm sick at this moment, or that I marathoned the last three episodes of American Horror Story: Freak Show, which were so disturbing, factored in my dislike of this book.
To be completely honest, I don't hate this book. I loved the introduction by the author. He seems like an awesome, intelligent person. I'm sure this book is genius and the message is important. I think it highlights my personal belief that humans are naturally evil, and we have to fight to be good. I thought Alex was an interesting character, but I don't think he redeemed himself. In the parts where he felt sick at violence, I felt sick myself. I felt physically ill at all the violence and murder and torture I saw in AHS: Freak Show. I've seen this show before, but I had a fever while watching so that might have played a part. And then I read this book. And I started shaking. And I realized that words make my head spin, and I have too many books and I don't want to read a book in a long, long time. And I just want to die because I don't know why there's so much violence and there's blood every time I close my eyes and Alex was so bad.
This book makes me want to never read again. It makes me not want to live. It makes me afraid to watch a horror movie, or anything that will trigger me again. I am afraid of things.
The summaries were for every chapter and I managed to understand the intentions of the author. I thought it was interesting, what the author tried to do. Although, I'm not sure if the fact I'm sick at this moment, or that I marathoned the last three episodes of American Horror Story: Freak Show, which were so disturbing, factored in my dislike of this book.
To be completely honest, I don't hate this book. I loved the introduction by the author. He seems like an awesome, intelligent person. I'm sure this book is genius and the message is important. I think it highlights my personal belief that humans are naturally evil, and we have to fight to be good. I thought Alex was an interesting character, but I don't think he redeemed himself. In the parts where he felt sick at violence, I felt sick myself. I felt physically ill at all the violence and murder and torture I saw in AHS: Freak Show. I've seen this show before, but I had a fever while watching so that might have played a part. And then I read this book. And I started shaking. And I realized that words make my head spin, and I have too many books and I don't want to read a book in a long, long time. And I just want to die because I don't know why there's so much violence and there's blood every time I close my eyes and Alex was so bad.
This book makes me want to never read again. It makes me not want to live. It makes me afraid to watch a horror movie, or anything that will trigger me again. I am afraid of things.