Chloe
This excerpt describes Kalanithi's memoir perfectly:
” He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality. Dying in one's fourth decade is unusual now, but dying is not. “The thing about lung cancer is that it's not exotic,” Paul wrote in an email to his best friend, Robin. “It's just tragic enough and just imaginable enough. [The reader] can get into these shoes, walk a bit, and say, ‘So that's what it looks like from here...sooner or later I'll be back here in my own shoes.' That's what I'm aiming for, I think. Not the sensationalism of dying, and not exhortations to gather rosebuds, but: Here's what lies up ahead on the road.” Of course, he did more than just describe the terrain. He traversed it bravely. “
Everyone involved had a truly wonderful way with words and I will, indeed, be crying for the next week or so.
I dnf'd it when a ritualistic necrophilia scene occurred & the victim was described as sliding across the floor from “the force of the penetration” which was simply too absurd for me at the late hour at which I was reading this (20%) but tbh, I was just waiting for a reason to stop reading bc all the banter was starting to make me crazy.
Alessandra carried this book.
It is my opinion that she is single-handedly the best fl I have ever crossed paths with. Reading her POV was a genuine delight and I, thankfully, did not want to end my mental suffering after reading an entire book in her perspective, as I do with most other female leads.
This book is a guilty pleasure read though because everything else was mid. But her? She is my queen (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ).
Do yourself a favour and read this book just to see the funny shit she pulls. The way she treats her father & that opening with her POV of her little affair with Helikopter is absolutely hilarious.
lovely use of my time :DD
THIS BOOK IS A 5 STAR IN MY HEART
This self-aware heroic vampire-story parody was funny as shit.
Some quotes as evidence:
- “I thought she was mine! She seduced me with her Witch's magicks!” Slade protested,
righteously. “Her curly hair is un-Witch-like and purposefully attractive.
When I kissed her, she only pretended to fight me off. She gives mixed signals.”
- She contrived to look innocent. “Reconsidering your plan to pimp me out to
Edward Cullen?”
- To Slade, Kara didn't really exist as a person. She was simply there,
sharing his scene and awaiting his throbbing male member with her quivering
flesh.
BUT NOT ONLY THAT, IT WAS ALSO SEXY AS FCK??? I would quite literally DIE for Damien. Somehow this book - with its stupidly funny (but nonetheless, stupid) plot - HAD THE MOST AMAZING SHOW-STOPPING ONE-LINERS. & don't get me wrong, there wasn't much smut, but when there was???? I STARED AT THOSE WORDS FOR WHAT FELT LIKE DAYS. I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E.Some cute little love quotes as evidence: - “You were never my doom, Kara Lynn. Not ever.” Heshook his head at how insane that idea seemed, now. “You are my salvation.” - I have waited for you my entire life and you don't even think I exist. - “Kara Lynn, it was such a simple thing. For you, I would do so much more.” - The girl was just a means to an end, but she was his means to his end.AND THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL OF IT ?!?!?! DAMIEN IS JUST TOO DREAMY. He is sassy, funny SE-XY and perfect. The plot in this book was amusing at best and the world (with all of its unpredictable craziness) reminded me of a Where's Wally scene but dear Lord did Damien make up for it.ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED. I WILL NEVER GET OVER DAMIEN <333 o(≧▽≦)ツ┏━┓