Glad I Stayed
robbierotten
Aug 22, 2024 8:14 PM
The thought makes your head reel---not a fictitious but a real infinity, filled with things and creatures and galaxies and galaxy clusters and clusters if galaxy clusters and so in and so on, without an end in either direction. And now and then spots where the substance gets thin.
Words. They don't capture how it really is.
A man, his wife, and their daughter rent an Airbnb in the middle of nowhere, and they really, really should have left.
Never before has a book made me so uneasy. Multiple times while reading this my hair stood on end. It’s a wonderful experience. Only a little over 100 pages, Kehlmann makes every word count. Not for a second was I bored. Absolutely loved it!
2 Comments
earlichka
1 year ago
A plot blurb, a quote empty of meaning or style, a pagecount, a very cliched expression, and "it was good, I liked it." Can you provide any detail or non-general observation about the book that would help someone who doesn't know you personally and know that they share your tastes discern something about this book? What if you have a very limited literary palette or some kind of feeble-minded individual who is genuinely afraid of ghosts and this is just some stephen king knockoff haunted house bullshit?
robbierotten
1 year ago
no, not really. it's not my job to give an in-depth analysis/review of any book i read. i respect the people who do, but not everyone has the time/energy/will to do that. i read the book, enjoyed it, and left a short review about how i liked it. that's how prefer to do things. if someone wants to know more about this book they can look at other, more lengthy reviews or research it themselves.