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Cartarescu’s imagination is staggering. A blue gelatin dome is placed over your childhood neighborhood that hardens to stone over time. “The neighborhoods of childhood exist nowhere on Earth.”
— Oct 06, 2025 10:51AM
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a_reader
is on page 327 of 640
Read up to Part 3. Long descriptions of one nightmare after another. The body mutilated in grotesque manners I hate to think about. My fears written down and I’m forced to confront pure evil. I can only handle one chapter at a time, and often not even everyday. It’s too much to be in this world for a more extensive time.
— Nov 06, 2025 05:39PM
a_reader
is on page 273 of 640
“Diseases, parasites, deformities, the ruins of the most noble temple on the luminous face of the world: the blessed human body” This pretty much sums up this brick of a book in one sentence.
— Oct 27, 2025 08:26PM
a_reader
is on page 253 of 640
A real mind fuck. I’m enjoying about 95%, some of the digressions are tedious but they’re few and far between.
— Oct 19, 2025 06:30PM
a_reader
is on page 209 of 640
Just read what is probably the most excruciating passage detailing dental work. I pray that I will never have to experience such misery and suffering myself.
— Oct 14, 2025 12:13PM
a_reader
is on page 194 of 640
Ok, the scene at the school with the bloody tooth just made my stomach turn.
— Oct 10, 2025 01:58PM
a_reader
is on page 169 of 640
Okay, the idea of tattooing your internal organs is a new one for me.
— Oct 02, 2025 08:17PM
a_reader
is on page 156 of 640
“Nothing is strange to a child, because he lives in the strange, this dreams and old memories seem made from the same subt.”
— Sep 29, 2025 05:55PM
a_reader
is on page 148 of 640
Just encountered the first digression that I didn’t care for: Caty the chemistry teacher.
— Sep 26, 2025 01:36PM
a_reader
is on page 116 of 640
An entire section detailing coins dropping on the floor while undressing. How did he turn something so mundane into beauty?
— Sep 25, 2025 06:36AM

