Prophet Song

kiennah a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Stressful read for all the right reasons

5 étoiles

Thanks to the way it was written and the story combined, this book grabs you by the throat and infects you with the main character's stress that oozes out of the pages. Couldn't read this in one go, and the final 50 pages were a constant battle between reading on for the story and putting it aside because it was just so harrowing. One of those books that will ruin your day, if not your week, because it's just so good and awful at the same time.

Deixis9@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Harrowing

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A nightmare in book form. I could only read for an hour at a time.

How a contemporary western state can collapse from the perspective of an Irish middle class family.

Deserves every prize, compulsory reading.

Categorise with Atwood.

Ross 📚 a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Will make you think and stay with you (stick with it if the prose and syntax feels awkward at first -- it's worth it)

5 étoiles

First, I love the use of language, punctuation, syntax, in this book. It took time to acclimate, but once one does it becomes a character itself. I cannot imagine this story written in a more conventional way. At least not a story as powerful.

Second, I had no idea when I finished how much I would be thinking about it a month later. Do not get me wrong, I marinated on this book for a while after finishing (and while reading, of course), but recent events have made this story much more... pointed.

This was a difficult read and I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it (apart from the language, which is beautiful at times, and cutting at others, and so so bleak). Do not go into Prophet Song expecting a rollicking read. It hurts, it frightens, it warns. This is all my opinion, of course, and I haven't …

First, I love the use of language, punctuation, syntax, in this book. It took time to acclimate, but once one does it becomes a character itself. I cannot imagine this story written in a more conventional way. At least not a story as powerful.

Second, I had no idea when I finished how much I would be thinking about it a month later. Do not get me wrong, I marinated on this book for a while after finishing (and while reading, of course), but recent events have made this story much more... pointed.

This was a difficult read and I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it (apart from the language, which is beautiful at times, and cutting at others, and so so bleak). Do not go into Prophet Song expecting a rollicking read. It hurts, it frightens, it warns. This is all my opinion, of course, and I haven't explored the reviews of others much (if you see this, please let me know what you thought!). I am glad I read it.

BoMay a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

A country descends into darkness.

5 étoiles

A mother tries to hold her family together as her country falls to fascism and civil war. A gut punch of a book made all the more terrifying when read next to the news of our time.

📚 Alex Stevenson-Price

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6 mai 2024

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kiennah a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Stressful read for all the right reasons

5 étoiles

Deixis9@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Harrowing

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Ross 📚 a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

Will make you think and stay with you (stick with it if the prose and syntax feels awkward at first -- it's worth it)

5 étoiles

BoMay a publié une critique de Prophet Song par Paul Lynch

A country descends into darkness.

5 étoiles