Devin

There's not much that I feel qualified to say, and that doesn't usually stop me from saying a lot anyway but in this case it does. All that I can think of is that at certain parts of the book the question came to my mind: “Is this actually real or are these bits embellishments?” By the time I got to the end I realized it didn't matter. This is not a textbook. It is a memoir about trying to tell the world about humans subjected to dehumanization. It succeeds.

One of my favorite kinds of writers, the kind that can make anything both beautiful and ugly at the same time, and has no qualms about doing so. I did not see a lot of the humor that other reviews have mentioned when reading this (though the comical absurdity of many of the situations was apparent), but this detracted from nothing. A writer that is not afraid to string you along, knowing that the pivotal moment will be well worth the worldbuilding, character development, the beautiful time spend in the world... that is an incredible thing, and available in spades here. Absolutely gorgeous.

I wrote a long, heartfelt review. I didn't mean to because I'm doing this on my phone, but I got too excited. I was just about to write a tl/dr, when the app crashed. I'm too sleepy to try and repeat all of it from memory, so here's the tl/dr:

This book has changed my life. As a book, it's well-written, interesting, crazy, and surprisingly funny. But my main thing is that I have never felt more seen by an author in my whole life except for Rilke. I have never felt more understood. I feel myself getting carried away again so I'll stop.

Book is really good. If you don't like, that's perfectly fine, but I am a different person after reading it and it's really good.

God this book is fascinating and beautiful, and there is more than one scene that turned my stomach or put my jaw on the floor. It has its own atmosphere and ambience that is so unique to just this book, that I can't think of anything to which I can compare it. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to. If it helps any, the first time I heard of this book was when I went to google and searched for “books that feel like the Silent Hill series.”

Beautiful, wonderful, no criticisms, aaaaaaaaaa.
I know people like to tease this book by saying that it's like reading the Bible or something like that, but in my opinion that's one of its strengths. This tale is gorgeous and sweeping and it elevates your state of mind so high into the clouds that you feel like a divine being, watching these events transpire and the years roll on. Absolutely brilliant.