saint_eleanor's reviews
264 reviews

This was super fun and very classical sci-fi horror vibes but the racist undertones were a bit much for me, even though I know that the whole book is kind of a metaphor for

God and humanity and race issues etc

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def lots of fun, didn't make a ton of sense and is almost more like a theoretical exercise. Brain food forsure

This was okay, i really liked the story actually and i can see how important it was at the time, but i kind of wish that it was longer or shorter/more concise? I like the themes of the übermensch, absurdism, and ultimate freedom from society’s norms/morals, but i think he could have gone even further with that. It reminded me a lot of Tayeb Salih’s Season of migration to the North, which i felt similarly about bc they deal with characters who kind of sit back and watch their peers assault women and kill people. I think the only reason i find these types of books to be irritating is bc the main characters are often like praised by people who are into Nietzche but all I’m seeing when I’m reading it is a man who is enabling/creating violence towards women and marginalized people and who is too spineless to have an opinion about it. Thats not really the book’s fault though, i feel like they are missing the point of the story.  I also have an issue with the existentialism theme, bc it gets him off the hook for any guilt about the murder bc he embraces true nihilism. I think thats BS personally but again i think that’s the point— that nihilism is actually quite dangerous. Idk!!

This was fine, i can tell that for the time it was probably really riveting and interesting. I really liked the plot and i loved the actual horror elements but i just wished it had been longer and I also wish the writing style was less boorish but again, it was written in the 19th century. Reminded me of the movie 'Lair of the white worm' for some reason. 

This was super interesting but it was a little bit confusing because the narrator changed like every 5 seconds (it was told POV of mushrooms and lightening bolts at one point!) 
I loved the storytelling and the myths and how matter-of-factly magical it was it was extremely poetic and lovely

Eeby creeby!!

slay

This was so delicious, the stories are so strange and disturbing and creative i actually cannot even believe a human being wrote them. its a love letter to weirdos but especially weird women. 
My favorites were Pyret, Jagannath, Some Letters for Ove Lindström, Who is Arvid Pekon? , Brita’s Holiday Village Reindeer Mountain, Cloudberry Jam, Aunts (which is almost all of them). 

I could talk about this book for literally hours, would not be able to fit all my thoughts into a review. If you want to talk abt it message me on discord honestly lol (pickledfishxoxo). I would love to know your thoughts on the closing quote, and

what the thick mass is, and who she is writing to. I think that it's an extension of the earlier quote "Tell me, in your darkness, in your ocean, am I ever there? Have we ever reached eachother?" and she is still "looking" for the 'hating' girls, saving them from the darkness/void of their paintings. She's reaching across time and space to rescue them.

In place of an actual review and bc im extra i made a list of every explicit and implied reference in the book and some I just thought would be good further reading because I loved this book sm and i think part of why is bc she referenced so many of my favorite medias 🤓: 

Books: 

Other: 
 Anders Breivik (?)- norweigan terrorist, Friedrichshof Commune, DWeb vs. ARPANET, Jacques Derrida- Algerian-French philosopher, Luce Irigaray- French philosopher and linguist.