Blake Butler
Birth date: January 01, 1979
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This is the first book I've rated with 1 star. I thought the stream-of-consciousness was poorly executed.
There are few books that actually defy description, and this is one of them. There isn't a plot, not really, and the characters are hardly characters at all. This book is like a poem, filled with symbols and allegories, some seeming to be completely derived of any meaning. It won't be easy to read...
This is quite possibly the darkest novel I have ever, or will ever, read. Yup. It's THAT dark. What makes it so incredibly dark is the complete absence of light. Seriously. There is nothing light-hearted or hopeful. The apocalypse has happened, death is inevitable, and all there is left to do is wai...
I can't even honestly say the book was OK (two stars) as I really did not like it much after the first forty pages or so. There are no spoilers here in the following review, and really it is quite impossible to achieve with a work of this nature anyway. I tried hard to give this novel a good going ...
All the time I have been reading this I have had a nagging feeling of recognition to my ongoing reaction, as if there were something rotten stuck in my mouth. I have finally pinned it down. Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Remember poor Gregor, wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a cockroach? ...
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