Oh wow, this was amazing / horrifying on such a visceral level. Felt like reading was self-harm in a pain/relief way. Incredibly powerful, and awful, and amazing.
Weirdly, the gym scenes were the ones that hit me most - I've just started lifting myself so I have a really clear reference for it and it felt so believable.
I'm from the U.S. and read this book for the third or so time in the wake of the Trump presidency. There's something I find comforting about the horror in this book because of its underlying familiarity; it hurts me more than any media ever has, but it also feels bizarrely comforting. It made me think some scenes were kind of hot and then spiral for at least a few minutes over why I would think that. Overall, I will probably read it again (and again, and again.)
truly such an onslaught of horror, fucked me up bad. so many things caught me totally off-guard & plunged me into levels of dread i didn't know existed!! crazy, sickening, piercing look at failures of solidarity & selfhood. the whole time i was waiting for a reckoning & the one i got was, again, entirely surprising. a perfect ending i never would have wanted in a million years. im sick
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Oh wow, this was amazing / horrifying on such a visceral level. Felt like reading was self-harm in a pain/relief way. Incredibly powerful, and awful, and amazing.
Weirdly, the gym scenes were the ones that hit me most - I've just started lifting myself so I have a really clear reference for it and it felt so believable.
More please, daddy.
I'm from the U.S. and read this book for the third or so time in the wake of the Trump presidency. There's something I find comforting about the horror in this book because of its underlying familiarity; it hurts me more than any media ever has, but it also feels bizarrely comforting. It made me think some scenes were kind of hot and then spiral for at least a few minutes over why I would think that. Overall, I will probably read it again (and again, and again.)
truly such an onslaught of horror, fucked me up bad. so many things caught me totally off-guard & plunged me into levels of dread i didn't know existed!! crazy, sickening, piercing look at failures of solidarity & selfhood. the whole time i was waiting for a reckoning & the one i got was, again, entirely surprising. a perfect ending i never would have wanted in a million years. im sick