240919: this is not book I would usually pick up but very glad I did. I have read horror (198), but I am not horror aficionado- I do not read graphics240919: this is not book I would usually pick up but very glad I did. I have read horror (198), but I am not horror aficionado- I do not read graphics, watch movies, tv series, plays. on the other, I have read American Psycho, which is major reference point. this is 'splatterpunk': visceral, immediate, extreme in characters, in plots in action- this makes It, indeed all of Stephen King seem bland, middlebrow and not remotely scary....
I had known this from previous disappointing readings, where the town of It, is basically giant haunted house, where The Shining is same with paranormal, where other works are similarly riffs on traditional themes- vampires 'Salem's Lot, telekenesis Firestarter, then is of course my favourite Carrie... this last all you need ever read of King...
this book is... different. feminist horror. body horror (she really likes him... but this is too much for her). ghosts, ultraviolence, blood and guts and gore, fun......more
240611: excellent. not much more to say. easy to read one way, hard to read another way. 'trigger warnings' always suggest to me there is subject wort240611: excellent. not much more to say. easy to read one way, hard to read another way. 'trigger warnings' always suggest to me there is subject worth examining, reasoning, reflecting, not pushing it away or refusing to read it. this is not exactly the experience of the women known who have been abused, everyone is different, or my experience as boy......more
240517: excellent resource of texts on and by and about modern literature. but. thiif you like this review i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com
240517: excellent resource of texts on and by and about modern literature. but. this is resource read without guidance, skipping around according to interests, perhaps best as assigned text at u. there is everything from Oscar Wilde to Ernest Hemingway. but. most of the authors re canonical English eg. Virginia or Ruskin or Conrad, very few not Eurocentric, few critical, more appreciation, gives sense of the times...
and great excerpt from Henri Bergson in Creative Evolution that encapsulates in beautiful writing exactly his mature thought... think will go read it again......more
240410: this book is riveting cross between coming-of age and noir/revenge tale. faif you like this review i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com
240410: this book is riveting cross between coming-of age and noir/revenge tale. father Viktor and daughter Ambar of no fixed address, no permanent home, are on the road in Argentinian outback, searching for mercenary who killed his partner, has them next on the list. feel an urge to justify several bookshelves: comic-satire for absurdity of their lives, feminism lit because Amber is hard-edged narrator needing no rescue, philosophy in the dark wisdom father shares (better to hit first). xxxseslit for Ambar's burgeoning sexuality/affection for boys and 'normal' life she will never have. sharp, dark, violent......more
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