Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
by:
Juliann Garey (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299574502 (1299574505)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Soho Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Health,
Contemporary,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
Garey is a strong writer and she's created a very well-developed character, as well as a portrait of mental illness that does not rely on stereotypes. Ultimately, though, I found the plot kind of boring and a little repetitive.
I gave it about 130 pages, which is nearly half the book, and I couldn't take any more. The narrator's problem appears to be sex addiction rather than bipolar disorder. When I got to the part where he's in Santiago, talking about how armpit hair is sexy because it's like a woman giving him a view of...
"ONCE I WAS MUSIC, NOW I AM JUST NOISE"Re-read and reassessed. you get a perfect five as my prejudice and initial qualms are sidelined. So there is this book. you just finished it. it leaves you nervous. you realize in the back of your head that you connect to it; connect to it too much. It buzzes i...
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