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Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith

This gritty, bleak novella was the basis for the 2011 Pedro Almodovar film The Skin I Live In. I have not seen the Almodovar movie, however I do recall seeing trailers for the movie & immediately thinking of Georges Franju's 1960 movie Eyes Without a Face, one of the first Criterion Collection movies I ever watched. This is a deeply unsettling work of transgressive fiction that I wouldn't recommend to many. As The Complete Review states (cont)

vivastory “Mygale . . . is, appropriately enough, a spider web of a book, the different threads spun out until it all comes together in its very neat design. Jonquet serves up some extremely unlikely coincidences to get it to all fit together, but most of what he dishes up is so bizarre that one can almost overlook that..Jonquet spins out several threads separately, jumping from one to the other until they finally all come together.“ Upon finishing (cont) 2y

vivastory Mygale rather than watching the Almodovar adaptation, I opted to revisit the Franju. I didn't think it was possible, but it was even better the second time around.
Book 10 of #MidwayBOTY23 (edited) 2y

Lesliereadsalot I thought Almodovar‘s movie was extremely disturbing, although I usually recommend all his movies. I was mostly in awe watching it, as my skin crawled! 2y

vivastory @Lesliereadsalot I plan on eventually watching it as I do really like his films. While at the library yesterday I saw that he had also adapted a series of linked stories by Alice Munro. I was unaware of the book and the movie but both sound great. 2y

Reggie That Almodovar movie was crazypants. My favorite of his is Volver followed by Sobre de Mi Mama, La Mala Educacion, La Ley de Deseo and Habla Con Ella. 2y

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Ast_Arslan

Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith

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There's no time for kindness in this book, no time for mercy.
#Mygale is a short but impressive ride into madness and into revenge.
There are three main characters and none of them are innocent. They all have sins to be expiated in the most cruel way.
The written style is cold and incisive as a blow from a scalpel. Maybe the ending is a little bit too hasty, but is definitely a short book hard to forget.

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Ast_Arslan

Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith

I saw the movie (The skin I live in) long time ago and it was so disturbing that I've been curios about the book since then.
I already know it will be different about the Almodovar's work but I hope to like it, even because I'm not sure if I appreciated or not the movie 😅

#mygale #ThierryJonquet #ebook #disturbingcover

Palimpsest I have not read this book, but this is one of the most disturbing movies I‘ve ever seen! I‘ll have to watch for your book review. 4y

Ast_Arslan @Palimpsest it's a short novel, so it shouldn't take me longer to finish it 😁 the reading so far is quite disturbing too 😆 4y

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RiaWritten

Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith

bailed

I'm trying to get better about not finishing books I'm not enjoying and this was one. Didn't love the style and had already seen the movie. Didn't really feel worth even its meager page count.

MrBook Not every one is a winner. 👍🏻 8y

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