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I think David Grossman is brilliant; his book See Under: Love would be on my top 10 list of favorite books. That said, I couldn't finish Be My Knife. It felt like he could use a few years of therapy to address his issues with women.
The book is an epistolary novel but (imho) it quickly becomes a pretest to analyze the mind of two beautiful human being. The highlight of the book is posing questions about Yair, is he really that mad or is just a representative of the humankind and Grossman is a master and painting human insecurities?
Did not finish. This book annoys me to no end.
One of those books that look into your soul, analyze the most profound implications of Love and shows how Love makes the Extraordinary and the Unconventional enter you life.
I think I have dog-eared more pages in David Grossman's books than in any other author's books. His aren't always the easiest or most accessible, but he is after something deeper; you just have to be willing to go along for the ride, and struggle along with the characters.
Now, with the last tears having dried -- being able to think objectively about it -- what do I think about this book?Everyone will agree, it's extremely disturbing. But in what way? At the beginning, the usual things came to disturb me. Is this guy a total psycho, what is he capable of doing, how forceful and crazed and passionate. Etc. The strange thing is that it's hypnotizing and its like you get judo thrown halfway through the book: the disturbing part wasn't any more anything related to the...
I just love this book, it talks to the deepest shadows of the reader.
Not my cup of tea...
I just couldn't get into it. It's a bit too boring and weird... bad type of weird.
I came across this book when a dear person sent me the first pages. The first impression was “what the hell!” Probably the guy is some freak that imagines his exchange of letters with this girl. But I can’t say that I wasn’t tempted and the reason was that I knew it would be a journey of self-revelation.When I decided to read the book, I struggled so much to find it, cause unfortunately isn’t translated in Albanian and after surfing the net and after my friend travelling abroad didn’t find it, I...
Intimately weird reading experience.
It's not simple to concentrate on such an image; try it, it requires the operation of extremely strong soul muscles along the spine of the soul, because the soul arches in terrible resistance against it, and great strength is needed to force its surrender. p60But don't forget that "reality" itself is, when it comes right down to it, only a momentary coincidence on the surface of a huge sphere crackling with possibilities that will never be realized. p55 Audacious, preposterous, brilliant and com...
I went to bed angry because of this book. It begins with a love letter from a neurotic rare book seller (and i'm thinking, oh snap...i like rare books. i can get behind neuroses!) to a woman he saw a few days before at a class reunion. This sort of premise is right up my alley, a love affair demonstrated through a series of letters. Like Griffin and Sabine without all of the rad mail art. Anyway, about 20 pages I got pissed off. He describes his own first letter as a "restrained suicide note." I...
As if somebody lived in my own soul for a while, looked around and wrote everything down. Thank you Mr. Grossman for writing a perfect mirror.
One of the most beautiful books I have read.
It took me a while to get swept into it... It left a good impression but I initially I very much 'resisted' the narrative, it took me a while to accept it.Yair's words sounded to me like the words of a maniac; it is a one way monologue for most of the book; well, all the story is really two monologues. You need patience to read and understand, and a certain level of emotional maturity is in my case maybe is not so high.The two characters don't know each other, they end up developing a deep conne...
A 300+ pages summary:a pshyco sees a woman, does some mental mansturbation about it and starts writing her letters. Dysfunctional relationship nonsense.
Odd book. The premise of an open letter pouring ones most inner and intimate thoughts to a near strange is intriguing. The fact that the beginning was all narrated by the male character was frustrating. I wanted to hear the real exchange - what was happening. I got through about 1/2 the book and couldn't slog through it any more. Tried to skip ahead to the other female narrator but it didn't work. A brilliant book - I just couldn't get involved in the story.
"The passion of my yearning for someone, a man above all, who would not only dare to strip me of my clothes, but would look at what is there within me, so we could see, together, what I am made of"Emotions, feelings, longings, doubt, fears, anger, emptiness, search for true love. If these are the things you're looking for, it's gonna be your best read. These feelings are too strong at some places. It demands all of your attention. You might get frustrated but it's one of the interesting about th...
I so loved See Under: Love, and reviews of Grossman's new book have been so good, I thought I'd give this a try while waiting for the new one to come out in paperback, but it just didn't do it for me. The last section was compelling, but oh boy did the first section try my patience.
