pickThis book will stay with me for a long, long time. I really liked the first 75% of The Overstory, but then it lost me. This book is not like that. I can‘t really articulate all the things it made me think, and feel. And the vote at the end? Every point was valid, and true! So good. (But I do think Rafi kinda sucked). (20)
⭐️: 4.5/5
so-soWell, I just found out the thing I'm even less prepared for than an ending which seems to offer no hope or redemption, is one that makes you think it will be somewhat happy and then turns out to be a lie.
If you felt blank after Death of the Author, if you felt angry after Atonement, I don't think you're going to like this ending. 1/?
And this is why I always eventually find my way back to poetry, because there are those that make me “feel like a comet had just screamed across the sky“...“
“What began, centuries ago, as a healthy safeguard against projection had become an insidious contributor to human exceptionalism...“ 🤨🙎🏼♂️
#ReadTheWorld2025
Hi @GatheringBooks here‘s my first update on your challenge. In January and February I read 6 books set in countries and/or written by authors from all over the world. These countries are #Mexico, #Japan, #SouthKorea, #Netherlands, #FrenchPolynesia and #Chile. I hope to read at least six more in March and April!
pickI‘m all over the map on this book. Here are my random thoughts:
1. Don‘t listen to the audiobook. Apparently you can‘t tell that there is a section of the narrative that is in italics which is an important feature of the story. (At least that‘s what Reddit readers said.)
2. It took me forever to get into it and I really had to push to finish it.
3. You have to finish it. But it will give you a headache.
4. The ocean is magical. AI sucks.
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