I loved your take on it, and I agree. I think French really nailed a lot of character development in this and the subsequent novels in the series.

I didnt like it. Maybe it didnt helped that I read Blindsight before this.

I just finished this. I did LOvE it, but I’m feeling confused. 🤔 as in maybe I’m not smart. I appreciate this video.

I found this book at a random hotel half the world away from home. I also read it in one sitting. I am torn between analyzing the book as a methaphor, or take it at face value. Either way, I agree with both parents being unfit to care for the child. As the mother is clearly delusional unrelated to whether it's supposed to be read as a methaphor or as a pure fiction. The father also does questionable things in a desperate attempt to make his child normal. Some of the doctors seemed scetchy and putting AI in a childs brain is not a solution I'd be on board with, neither the "water treatment" the mother was inflicting on her. I was confused at the ending, and I'm wondering if chouette leaving meant she actually died?

I've bought this book some weeks ago in a local books fair, I gonna read it.

I'm not very good at doing searches within a channel. So I am wondering if you read and reviewed "Foster" another novel by Claire Keegan.

Great, I just finished this book and it was good. At first, I thought husbands trying to poison their wives in account of keeping money and not paying alimony. They've gotten ill a chain of command, then on p.346 it mentions para....Their cure is based on salts, oxygen, rest and sooner or later goodbye. A must read.

What a wonderful review! I value the thoroughness of your insights, taking in almost every aspect of the novel. WOW!!

I love his other book In the Distance even more

Part of me wants to read this novel however I follow Patricia Taxxon on KZbin who is the child in this novel and I think that’s a bit creepy. Anyways I love your voice and I will be following you for your reviews.

i have no idea why yt recommended this 2 year old video but i clicked so fast cause i've recognized you from your profile pic lol been following you on tsg for a while. i always read your reviews!!

Where if could asist, can i get this book on pdf or digital version

I really really love your channel & have been binging all your videos. you should have more views!

Basically, like Black Swan but in dog form?

Your intelligence comes through.

Great review! The reason why this book is so similar to control is because thr game devs of control took a lot of inspiration from the SCP foundation

I thought it beautifully written but I'll be honest and say that I'm not really sure I understood the ending. I really just didn't get it and it left me confused. What was your take? Perhaps I just couldn't see the wood for the trees ;) But there is a lot of really clever thought and ideas contained therein and I enjoyed the book and Mr Burnet's efforts very much. I also loved 'His Bloody Project' and will certainly buy whatever he writes next.

Loved the Break. She also wrote Children’s graphic books about the Métis’s history in Manitoba. Look up A Girl called Echo.

Just finished it. I like the first book of the four, but overall I didn't find it that interesting. Likewise, I didn't particular like or feel connected to any of the characters.

Its the giggle show.

As a translator, I approach this book with fear and respect. And wonder if it's even translatable without losing its essential.

TINAD is one of my favorites. My second read through was also good, but very different. It inspired me in parts of my novel, Above Dark Waters. The main company is an AI therapy company and tries to maximize usage to heal people. Instead of anti-memetic, an AI using brainwave data, accidentally makes something supermemetic: something so good you can't remember anything else.

Just finished the book...and I can't get over it...never connected so much with a character and their journey...and i loved your explanation.

Thank you for a fair assessment and detailed analysis of this! I had the same experience of finding the "middle moons" tedious. Yes, this is an original book but the lack of specificity, as you mention, made this dry and repetitive for me. It did not draw me in, unfortunately. Still, there is black humour and a Boschian vision of hell that are remarkable.

The entire book hinges on a psychotic girl manipulating a man into killing another girl. How in the holy hell did you chooses this lens? Jesus dude. Lift some weights and get some testosterone flowing through your damn veins. I could write a thesis on how this review encapsulates toxic femininity and what it has done to the modern male psyche.

i love weird, surreal n feral fiction. i didn’t see a lot of reviews of this book *get it* but yours is a great overview! might give this a read sometime :3

fun fact the writer's daughter is actually a youtuber i watch and she stated that this book was written by her mother about the experience of raising a child with autism

I read books. I don't consume content. Left the video after a minute.

I feel like sections 1&2 could have have been omitted. Diaz should have have expanded section 3 and included parts of 4 inside of part 3. Thumbs up if you agree

Okay review, but I didn't benefit from you telling me too much of the story. Too much information. And also, when you give your analysis, it's very abstract. You've tried to mention everything, instead of generalising and grouping the related topic areas which are used to build the narrative; together. I got a bit lost, but was still interested jn what you had to say right the way through yr review, as each point was of significance. Perhaps if you prepared your review on paper, then it would be more structured and clear. I understood, however; only because I have just read the book but I still struggled with the speed and way in which you forned yr analysis of this book.

Women Talking is an amazing book! I love it so much!

I loved "Women Talking" but I have a problem with Toews using a male narrator. I think the book would have been much more powerful if the narrator was a woman. I know, the women did not know how to read and write, but in fiction anything can be done. The movie got it right, and removed the male narrator.

The Patrick Melrose novels have been on a secondary TBR for a while since I watched the miniseries. Before them, I need to get to the Raj Quartet books which have sat on my shelf far too long.

I loved Women Talking, hard hitting but so well written. Always love these vids ❤

I’ve just now downloaded Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow from my library’s Hoopla collection. Thanks, Fraser!

Funny, different readers get different things from "Some Women Talking", which is I guess a marker of the book's strength. For me it was a marvellous exploration of literal versus metaphorical language. I have "All Our Puny Sorrows" to read.

My feelings, almost exactly. 100s of pages of bad writing for a not surprising end.

Part of what i found interesting in this book was not knowing whether other characters were truly being so horrible to her, or if her paranoia was making it seem worse than it was in reality. Which puts even you as the reader in the position to doubt her experience, which of course is a major theme. I don't have experience with chronic pain that debilitating but i do relate a lot to the issues with chronic illness, medical gaslighting as a woman, not being believed by friends/family/doctors, having friends & family get sick of your issues and the lack of compassion, and then also feelings of loss & grief associated with aging as a woman... Looking at old pictures and videos of herself and longing to be that person again. I really loved this book although i just finished it and haven't had enough time to think about the ending to really understand it. Another thing i found interesting was how it lets you justify her meanness and vindictiveness, sometimes even cruelty, because of how angry you feel on her behalf.

Thank you for the review, it’s very insightful! I really liked the book but missed some things on the way and your review helped me fill in the gaps to properly appreciate it.

Your voice sounded sometimes a totally different person😮

Heh, I really liked Si Spurrier's Hellblazer. I thought it got closer to the old school Hellblazer than the last few reboots have been.

Fraser, I always love the books/vinyl/etc. that you feature on the shelves behind you. I always try to see what’s spotlighted- that Robert Johnson record is fantastic! Goodnight Punpun seems interesting- the bird element reminds me of the graphic memoir Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings but with a totally different tone/subject matter. The magic system in Assassin of Reality sounds really interesting!

Watch out for the boob! 😂 To bad about the Witch King. I really like the Murderbot books.

Wait there is a movie of Perfume with Alan Rickman?! How did I not know this??

Ah! I did not know there was a film adaptation of Perfume - interesting! I will have to check it out. I did a project in my history class on The Daughter of Time back in middle school and since you and Shelly have both talked about it, I really want to go back and read it again. It's sooo good as I recall.

Perfume is such a weird one. It’s probably the weirdest book I ever read. Good part 2 ❤

I haven’t read any of these, & probably never will. Though! I did get to about the same place in Constantine the movie that Shelly did (eons ago) … Also, I loved Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and agree the book doesn’t hold up as an adult wanting to read good literature.

Can't wait for Constantine 2!!! Please let it be good! I also like the movie The Perfume better than the book. And do you know the play with Ben Whishaw and Judy Dench about the real people who inspired Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland and the dark stories related to these books?

I thought Leviathan Wakes was ok..gave it a 3. Hearing you say this is a favorite series and gets better makes me want to try book two!

I remember when my colleagues at the library were raving about Perfume when it came out, and I could tell from what they said about it that it wasn’t my thing. I’m glad I stayed away from it. Alice in Wonderland, on the other hand, IS my thing. Love the edition illustrated by Yayoi Kusama.