Camus’ The Fall is written with a second person perspective where the character is telling ‘You’ a story, and you the reader become a receptive character as he does so. As I’m thinking on it, I’m unsure if the character/author reviles the listener or if the character’s orated self-reflection invites feelings of negativity. Or if my own response to the content invited it within myself.
Anyway, that’s my vote.
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Oh god Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. Felt super pretentious and poorly presented, and I recall in other reviews of the book people stated McEwan doesn’t usually write scifi and seemed to have a sort of condescending view of the genre. I’d genuinely rather read Fifty Shades of Grey, which was grammatically poor but the story was at least half decent.
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Camus’ The Fall is written with a second person perspective where the character is telling ‘You’ a story, and you the reader become a receptive character as he does so. As I’m thinking on it, I’m unsure if the character/author reviles the listener or if the character’s orated self-reflection invites feelings of negativity. Or if my own response to the content invited it within myself.
Anyway, that’s my vote.
Oh god Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. Felt super pretentious and poorly presented, and I recall in other reviews of the book people stated McEwan doesn’t usually write scifi and seemed to have a sort of condescending view of the genre. I’d genuinely rather read Fifty Shades of Grey, which was grammatically poor but the story was at least half decent.