Status Updates From The Man Without a Shadow

These reviews are making me wary… but let’s go…

jesczze troche 🥹 marne szanse ze protagonistka sie ogarnie jeszcze przez te ostatnie 4%

mam juz tak dosc tej ksiazki naprawde

kurwa znowu japieddole

girl stop being such a pussy

bez kom

boze nirch sie skoncza te testy i zacznie sie cos dziac tam

Uhhh disturbing en on-ethisch ik vraag me af waar dit naartoe gaat

I’m a little confused

this is very unsettling

oates writes eli well, she so naturally conveys his forgetting that it feels like when something disappears i also forget it

margo is most certainly not a reliable narrator. its interesting to see her professional thought process become obsessive

seems that the hoopes family may be hiding something, why was EH at the lake when he was ill?

margo is one hell of a mess. wondering what darker backstory that eli has and if ill ever really find out. oates writing style is simply a joy to read

Is margot an unreliable narrator, has she perceived certain interactions and behaviors of EH differently because of her personal interest in him?

an interesting commentary on the ethics of scientific research

No tears, dear Margot! Tears will not help Eli—and tears will not help you. Life is cruel once you are in its grasp, and life begins to squeeze like that hideous Greek sea serpent, who squeezed the father and his sons to death—'Layo-koon.' That has not happened to you—yet—but it has begun with me, and with poor Eli too.

"'There is no journey, and there is no path. There is no wisdom, there is emptiness. There is no emptiness.'" Pauses to add, "There is the wisdom of the Buddha. But there is no wisdom, and there is no Buddha." Laughing with inexplicable good humor.

Different type of book by this author. A neuroscientist becomes obsessed with a patient that has amnesia. She tells him they are married and buys rings for them and continues working with him for about 30 years.

OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIIIIIIT

I had a long, confusing update typed out, but this is a more concise reaction for the moment: WTF?! 😱

This is different to what I was expecting.

Was the amnesiac a killer or a victim? Fascinating memory-garbled revelations.

Really interesting perspective—that of the amnesiac. Something really bad in his past is gradually emerging like an oncoming truck from the fog of a mountain road.

Unethical relationships in an academic research environment threaten the validity of results and the professional reputations of profs and grad students. IF this all gets out!

Good book for rainy retreat—a weather cancellation or two have been necessary.

Elihu Hoopes is not the only “subject” in need of psychological assistance in this book. The researcher, Margot Sharpe, has quite a constellation of serious personal, as well as professional, issues. I’m pretty well hooked.

The sample for this book grabbed me so hard that after just 20 pages I bought it—no need to finish the sample. I’m taking this to Wildacres.

Piękny język, nawet tłumaczony

A good book but not one of her best.