#what becomes

[thesynthesist]

oh got quite the book haul yesterday! 

I’ve read Cockroach already but I needed a copy and I’m excited to get to grips with the other books soon! 

[jufemaiz]

Why something as small and seemingly insignificant matters in a complex system.

HT: Samantha Mackay.

[ernestjwiyanto]

What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy My rating: 1 of 5 stars I'm not sure I like it. The work is very reminiscing, in flow and style. I think of it more like a ramble. A collection of rambling with a series of really angry curses. The problem is I just don't care enough. Mostly the stories are about rusted married couples, husbands and wives in affairs, and broken family sort of stuff. People have been saying that the stories have sharp insights about them, has deep sentiments and snappy words. I don't know, I seriously can't bring myself to care. I think of it, think and think again. Why is this award-winning author decorated with prizes don't have her claws on me. Maybe it's about the words.... the words I thought. The book is very generous in spending words, it's like shooting them off with an automatic machine gun; loads of italics and dashes; which all of them disturbs and breaks the flow of my reading. It's also a bit poetic somehow? In a way it is. But I don't understand poetry. There are few interesting stories of course, with the most interesting one is "Sympathy" where the story consists only dialogues between two person in bed, having sex, embellishing the story with cunt, whore, and cock. That is probably the only story that I could really read. Then I really tried again to read the rest seriously. Ah, in the end I couldn't stand it. I think I just skimmed most of them. I think they are just not my cup of tea. View all my reviews