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A part of me wants to finish this tonight, the other more reasonable part wants me to finish this tomorrow after my exam. It's also 12AM as of speaking, the entire experience was in one word, fascinating. Absolutely immersive and engaging as well as critical and nuanced, layered with an eerie, distinct and disturbing seal about it.

Very entertaining, disturbing and has a sense of distinct confidence about itself that at times questions me. Ofcourse I am not understanding symbolisms or am being able to extract meanings and critical parts, also producing my own analysis properly since I'm listening to the audiobook, but honestly, enjoying my experience and massive props to the narrator for making the experience so engaging and thrilling.

My very first ever audiobook experience, and what a delight? This is disturbing, nauseating and extremely messed up and petrifying. Props to the narrator for making the experience so memorable and engaging, I have some thoughts on it, but really just enjoying my time with it. A very, well lets just say, unusual and eerie piece.

This collection is such a delight!

Missed reading these essays. Still as humorous and insightful as I remember.

Thank you to the author himself for reaching out and giving me an E-Arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.


Just started, actually am very interested to see how this unfolds!

Lapvona comments on so many things critically and puts you in a place of prolonging contemplation and wrestling your mind to comprehend the intensity of each conveyed meanings. This book specifically revolves around the idea of blind and self inflicted forced faith and challenging/understanding the concept of religious belief's itself. And, to what extend does this faith tamper with one's own perception of reality.

I never knew John Green could come up with such nuanced, emotional and intricate pieces of vignettes. So so different and for me, better, than his other YA popular boos. Such an important and warm yet critical collection.

I think of this book everyday but it's been a month since I picked it up. This is such an amazing book and I don't why I was pushing it. Every chapter demands critical understanding of humanity and feeling the depth and rawness of emotions, fragility, strength and intricacy. Marvelous piece. Every chapter I've read so far is filled with my notes and marked quotes. Aso personally, this book hits too close to home.

"It can sometimes feel like loving the beauty that surrounds us is somehow disrespectful to the many horrors that also surround us. But mostly, I think I’m just scared that if I show the world my belly, it will devour me. And so I wear the armor of cynicism, and hide behind the great walls of irony, and only glimpse beauty with my back turned to it, through the Claude glass."

Loving this so much. So insightful, nuanced and warm.

Really curious to see where this book goes. It just keeps getting better and increasingly disturbing.

Throughout the essays Greene effectively displays how us humans have shaped the world and our own very imaginations via artificiality. Because, that's what thrills us rather than delving in actuality. How our assumptions, ideas and the portrayal of media regarding things can dilute with the actuality and authenticity of them. Through the lens of media and such, humans tend to make their imaginations the 'reality'.

Really liking how John Greene speaks about the little details of life, little subtle moments that we often brush past but they had done many things for us, in shaping us for who we are and providing us sanctuary and/or places of terror. How through everything, he critiques and comments on the beauties and brutalities of mankind and humanity. At times adding historical lens or simply by expressing his own experiences.

This is a 5 star read. Never expected Tampa to be this good. So complex and layered in nuance as we progress, my God, never read anything like this before and seriously awestruck.

Seriously in awe and admiration, can't wait to see where this book leads to. It's just getting better and better.

Just loving this so much. And I didn't realize the author was Osamu Dazai's daughter, what a sudden surprise.

Just read the first chapter and I am already in love, this is what you call true literature, not pathetic wannabe's like Almod ffs.

This book is becoming a joke and I'm having none of it. I rest my case, the more I will talk about this, the more pissed I will get and the more my mood will worsen.

wtf am I reading. THIS IS GETTING ON MY NERVES. MAKE IT FUCKING MAKE SENSE. HELLO?? First of all, the story contradicts the main theme of the novel and tries so hard to be a magical make belief crap. Okay, I have adjusted myself with that BUT, the story is wild with what's happening. I HATE THESE CHARACTERS OMG. I don't want to continue, so cheeky and unrealistic. I'm fuming, so shallow and vague in its core wtf.

wtf am I reading. THIS IS GETTING ON MY NERVES. MAKE IT FUCKING MAKE SENSE. HELLO?? First of all, the story contradicts the main theme of the novel and tries so hard to be a magical make belief crap. Okay, I have adjusted myself with that BUT, the story is wild with what's happening. I HATE THESE CHARACTERS OMG. I don't want to continue, so cheeky and unrealistic. I'm fuming, so shallow and vague in its core wtf.

Uhm, this is actually being very contradictory to the core theme of the book. The author made a big fuss about our mc having a disease in which he feels no emotions, but we can see this trip throughout the novel as events occur. Why did she assign him with this disease then? Wth? Istg if it's about "finding real connections and growing emotions with others and finding ppl you care for" shit, I'm done.

I am like reading so many books at once lol. Wanted some fun so picked this up, and, I presumed it to be another 'junk' piece that keeps me entertained and jazzed without any critical nuance or need for analysis, but the writing is actually really good and already raised some points on serious topics, a complex depth is displayed just in the first chap, have hopes for it honestly after reading the first chap.

This is just wow, never read anything like this but am loving it. The prose is rich, the feelings are raw and the portrayal of obsession and lust is so masterfully encapsulated.

So far in the book, we can see how such distinct yet intense sexual desires and severe cravings/hunger for lust affect a persons mental stability and sense of decency and morality. Lust, so striking, that it blurs your sense of judgement.

11 pages took me hours, this book is so rich so nuanced and complex, but speaks right through your soul and shows you the complexities of the human condition. 11 pages in and I think I need a separate notebook to take notes as I'm running out of space in the book, haha. But i can say, this will for sure be a 5 star, maybe the best book of 2025 I read, who knows?