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Martyr!
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Great musings and ideas about intergenerational trauma and loss, addiction, and art throughout this book. I enjoyed reading the perspective of Cyrus, our queer Iranian American protagonist. The first 50 to 100 pages of the book hooked me. However, by the middle of the book I was less enthused because the prose seemed unfocused and meandering to me. I didn’t mind all the different points of view as much as how they started to drag for me due to the floridness of the writing. Perhaps people who enjoy poetry more than I do will like the way this book is written more than I did.
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April 28, 2024
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May 24, 2024 11:53PM
Wow I saw this book in a bookshop with its cover facing the shopper taking up valuable 4 book spines worth of space. What was the 50-100 pages about that hooked you?
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Yes it's a huge one! I think the voice was strong in those first 50-100 pages and I found the emotions related to grief and addiction compelling.
The beginning really drew me in too. Cyrus� odd job as a patient actor, the conversation with his sponsor Gabe. It was a brilliant opening, but then I found myself drifting away as the book jumped from POV to POV without much connection. Not a bad book, but I’m still digesting it, trying to form an opinion,
Yes, that's similar to how I felt David! Thank you for sharing.
Breezing through the first hundred pages, I fell into deep boredom and depression as I read on. May be hard to finish. Will it get better?
I agree, I found the first hundred pages difficult, pessimistic, and down. I thought I was going to have to close it up there. But given its status in the book world, I forged on. I enjoyed the book and glad I finished it. Cyrus goes through changes, a premise of the book, and worthwhile to flow with it.
I agree with your review. I love poetry, but this read as trying too hard. One could argue that melodramatic poetic gushing was intentional in Cyrus' POV. Still, the plethora of overdone—often nonsensical�"look-how-poetic-I-am" embellishments was annoying (in his chapters and others).
I also agree with your review. I thought it was gonna be a 5-star read....but then after 100 pages it wasn't for me.
