I agree, it is disturbing and powerful, but not in a way that made me want to keep reading (more in the way that I felt like I needed a shower). Too much talk of flower pistils…
I read Human Acts first and thought that was an incredible read, this one surprised me being so incredibly different, and wouldn’t have been my choice of winner, even if just between the two novels.
Human Acts she wrote setting out to answer a couple of existential questions, relating to her own life, it’s a book she wrote in order to try and stop thinking about those questions and its based on real events in Sth Korea’s history. It’s not an easy read, but a deeply affecting one.
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I too enjoyed this novel, so different but it held my attention.
This is one of those books that I can appreciate the style and the skill in the writing but that I didn’t enjoy reading much at all (had the same experience with one of the Stella Prize books earlier this year).
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I adored this one! Sorry to hear ye didn’t 🙂
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‘Off the charts’ is an apt description!
I found this really disturbing and powerful – sorry you didn’t get on with it! I do enjoy your one/two line reviews, they always make me laugh 😀
I agree, it is disturbing and powerful, but not in a way that made me want to keep reading (more in the way that I felt like I needed a shower). Too much talk of flower pistils…
Ha ha, I’m having the same experience with the one that won the Man Booker International. I may yet ditch it unfinished…
I kept reading this one because it was only 190 pages – had it been much more, I probably would have ditched.
That’s all I need to know!
The less I write, the more comments I get…. Hmmm… 😀
Classic review? 😂
It left me practically speechless. 😀
I read Human Acts first and thought that was an incredible read, this one surprised me being so incredibly different, and wouldn’t have been my choice of winner, even if just between the two novels.
I think I also have Human Acts, so pleased to hear they are quite different (because I wouldn’t be inclined to read it after finishing this one).
Human Acts she wrote setting out to answer a couple of existential questions, relating to her own life, it’s a book she wrote in order to try and stop thinking about those questions and its based on real events in Sth Korea’s history. It’s not an easy read, but a deeply affecting one.
I too enjoyed this novel, so different but it held my attention.
This is one of those books that I can appreciate the style and the skill in the writing but that I didn’t enjoy reading much at all (had the same experience with one of the Stella Prize books earlier this year).
LOL. I’ve got this in my pile of books for #20booksofsummer … hope to get to it soonish
Well, it’s a quick disturbing read!
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