vladislavlelyuk

I didn't get it. I get that death is scary and that much of our lives are oriented around mitigating that, but his portrayal didn't touch me any deeper than the sentence I just wrote. Maybe cause it's 25yo. It didn't feel dated, though. But maybe the issues were dated. Actually, I'm not sure what the issues were. Maybe their terror is fully a part of my baseline since I grew up after they started shambling. I loved the family exchanges where each character claimed to know things that they know only half truths (at best) about. To me, that was the most sickening part. That, and everything that got within 3 feet of Heinrich. Sickening in a good way though, I would have liked for the rest of the book to have been equally resonant. Maybe I'm too young, or too well ego defended (thankfully) to really get the rest. Maybe that says something about my own psychology. If it does, I don't know what it is. I would try another of his books in the future, if anyone's got any recs.

2020-12-28 14:57