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I'm sure if I picked it apart and analysed every nook and cranny I'd be able to decifer some complex meaning or moral message... but to be honest I don't really care enough.

This feels distinctly like something you'd study at school. Beautiful writing, simple story laden with metaphors and connotations just urging you to pick them apart for no reason other than to milk paragraph after analytical paragraph. So yeah.

This book surprised me. I thought it would be an airy documentation of some girls life, a sort of self insert with no real substance. Instead it is melancholy and real and vivid, and it gave words and tone to emotions I could never place my finger on.
Please read it if you're on the fence, I promise it doesn't disappoint.

subtly clever, its difficult to pinpoint why its so good. The unorthodox structure would be the most obvious reason why the book sticks out, i mean that's why its so well known. Anyway my fyp is slacking so im speeding through the book at a faster pace than usual.

The style of writing is so strikingly beautiful and elegant, but the subject of writing is so disgusting and odd. The narrator somehow finds a way to make paedophilia seem plausible and you have to stop for a second and shake yourself and go NONONO THATS NOT NORMAL DONT NORMALIZE THAT NO. I read in another review, someone said it "left a stain on their brain", and I can't think of a better way to put it. I feel icky