Campbell
Excited to see my therapist next week so I can cry to her about how this book describes everything I've ever wanted from love and from life. This was an excellent and natural portrayal of the FTL trope nice job Emily!!!
no story has ever made me feel as much grief as this one has. also wtf is going on the footnotes, the editor is straight up writing porn down there. never in my life have i read such a dirty interpretation of seemingly innocent writing. i read the arden publication btw
at first i thought, this is fantastic, nick is a horrible, lazy husband who dulls the shine of his amazing (lolz) wife, and this story is about her reclaiming her life. and it was like that for a while, but it ends up as her being crazy and him being the victim - how so many wives and mothers today are painted by their husbands. there's really no way to justify amy's behavior (the whole framing him for murder part i was fine with, really when she gets desi involved is where it goes off track), and so towards the end i couldn't really root for her anymore. though i cant say i hate the ending; it makes sense, and since got season 8, any ending that makes sense is a win for me
this book reaches into my soul and gives me comfort that no other person/book/movie or anything has ever given me. levin specifically gives me so much comfort (this repeat word is intentional and is my nod towards tolstoy's style), his struggles with existence and crisis of faith resonates so deeply with me - i think he perfectly represents that group in society which is intelligent enough to understand complex debates and conversations but doesn't know how to contribute to them, what opinion to have or how to say what they think. also so cool that levin is like tolstoy's self portrait of a character (great minds...? lolz). anyway i cannot wait to spend the rest of my life rereading this and on the off chance anyone is actually reading this haphazard review please read this book specifically the pevear and volokhonsky translation, im dying to talk about it ty
good story, but the dialogue was nearly unbearable. new #1 pet peeve is the way authors write mathematicians (we don't think in equations!)
