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Really not enjoying this. This reads like a sulky teen's attempts to be "transgressive"-there's nothing revelatory, nothing especially shocking, and it's all so repetitive. Perhaps something is lost in translation. I'll go on a bit more but if it doesn't improve considerably I'm ditching this.
— Jan 28, 2021 07:44PM
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Jan 28, 2021 08:23PM
Sounds like Catcher in the Rye.
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Forrest wrote: "Sounds like Catcher in the Rye."Haha! Yeah, kind of (I find that book tiresome too!)
I think one of the reasons I'm having such a hard time with this is that I just read Olga Tokarczuk's fabulous little essay on Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet and Tocarczuk makes it clear what a truly transgessive, fantastic, feminist book is.
Compared to Carrington or Tocarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Hval's book is just juvenile, and tiresome, and lacking in the insight and maturity to be truly transgressive. It's a wannabe and, right now, I just ain't got time for that.