Rae's number one rule of how not to be pretentious when writing a novel is:
NEVER use the second person!
Someone should probably also tell Rae that referring to oneself in the third person can be just as annoying 🤣🤣
📘 Not sure if it has the highest page count, but House of Leaves certainly felt like the longest book I ever read.
📗 Smaller books. To many details can get in the way sometimes
📙 Left on the branches
📘 Currently Xocolatl serene cacao tea
📗 By the campfire when we go to our land in the mountains
📙 Always loved it. Some early favorites were The Monster at the End of This Book, Popcorn, Is Your Mama a Llama?, The Little House
@Jenni_Capps
so-soWhen I first started this book, I thought it might merit a space beside Bukowski's Post Office, but... I loved DeWitt's other two books and adored his short piece the Bastard, but this piece of writing is too cliche and too studied. And while there are a series of great character studies hobbled together and inhabiting a similar "Bukowskian" space, it misses the true absurdity, depravity, and casualness you'd find there. Good but not great.
Mixing my dumplings with DeWitt. It all goes down surprisingly well.
so-soThis book I find very hard to rate. it is unlike anything I've read before and the authors use of 'you' to make you imagine yourself as the alcolholic main character, is very clever. While I liked the outline of this book and the writing I did find it a bit slow and a rather depressing read.
pickI was sceptical about the second person narrative. I expected pretension. I was wrong. It works perfectly. You get a lovely sense of the haze through which the harsh details penetrate. The failures, losers and addicts who cameo throughout the book are vivid and sad and funny. The narrator is frequently repulsive but you never want to leave his world. Its like Cheers meets Factotum. It's a brilliant book.
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