Man, I love your channel. Follow you since your video about Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. I stay out of social media as much as I can and your books recommendations help a lot. Wow, you always hit on the right spot. I need you on Podcast cause damn, your voice
Great video. I loved this book and it’s lovely to see it get the attention it deserves! I’m not sure if you were aware of this/didn’t see it mentioned but I think the book was based on the Nobel Prize winning scientist who characterised mad cow disease (or the first prion disease - which really did remind me of the dreamers) - Daniel Gadjusek. I found it fascinating because the denial of abuse was strong in the scientific community as they justified his altruistic nature of giving these children a new lease of life. There were documentaries about him lauding his adoption of the unfortunates (this was before the conviction). He was seen to do no wrong. I thought it was an aspect tackled expertly in Norton’s friend, especially at the end - and perhaps why the tonal shift didn’t quite bother me (because it really did happen).
Thank you! I LOVE Yanigihara... I haven't read this one yet and will pick it up. I HOPE SHE puts out another new book!! She and Donna Tartt are two of my all time faves.
I love this one! Tho ALL is my favorite, i think this is her most intelectually ambitious and maybe even best written book. Its very Nabokovian. I actually loved the shift in the third part abt the abuse but maybe that’s just me. The final scne is just horrifying
I found this a great book that was the perfect example of the flawed/unreliable narrator and detailed some very important issues of corporate greed, the west's sense of ownership over everything, corruption in governance, etc. My only criticism was that the font seemed to be ludicrously small.
Man, I love your channel. Follow you since your video about Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. I stay out of social media as much as I can and your books recommendations help a lot. Wow, you always hit on the right spot. I need you on Podcast cause damn, your voice
Thanks so much!!!
Great video. I loved this book and it’s lovely to see it get the attention it deserves! I’m not sure if you were aware of this/didn’t see it mentioned but I think the book was based on the Nobel Prize winning scientist who characterised mad cow disease (or the first prion disease - which really did remind me of the dreamers) - Daniel Gadjusek. I found it fascinating because the denial of abuse was strong in the scientific community as they justified his altruistic nature of giving these children a new lease of life. There were documentaries about him lauding his adoption of the unfortunates (this was before the conviction). He was seen to do no wrong. I thought it was an aspect tackled expertly in Norton’s friend, especially at the end - and perhaps why the tonal shift didn’t quite bother me (because it really did happen).
Thank you! I LOVE Yanigihara... I haven't read this one yet and will pick it up. I HOPE SHE puts out another new book!! She and Donna Tartt are two of my all time faves.
I love this one! Tho ALL is my favorite, i think this is her most intelectually ambitious and maybe even best written book. Its very Nabokovian. I actually loved the shift in the third part abt the abuse but maybe that’s just me. The final scne is just horrifying
I found this a great book that was the perfect example of the flawed/unreliable narrator and detailed some very important issues of corporate greed, the west's sense of ownership over everything, corruption in governance, etc.
My only criticism was that the font seemed to be ludicrously small.
After that horrible book A Little Life which I DNFed I have no intention of reading anything she wrote.