Katya Mills’s Reviews > The Luzhin Defense > Status Update

chess match leads to nervous breakdown. Luzhin strikes a match and it burns down in his fingers while he's in deep focus.

word for word its outstanding

so far i really like it. its hard because i find myself losing attention and having to come back to page after page but that says more about my attention span than the book itself. good writers are often hard to read and demand your undivided attention, and reward you for it, too.