'Twenty Years… Two People… One Day…"
“Can I say something?'
'Go on'
'I'm a little drunk'
'Me too. That's okay.'
'Just….I missed you, you know.'
'I missed you too.'
All right. Let's do this. Finally I'm giving the review I dreamt (Literally) since the nights I first finished it, when was that… damn that would be nearly 6 years now!! Can't believe I've re-read this book since then over and over again, what like 10 times, I lost count aha!! But why did I re-read it so many times? Cuz, It was that good? No! Was I had that much leisure time to waste in my hand? No!! Was the book very steamy… like smoking with romance? Nah man… It wasn't that too. Then what in holly hell is it? Idk man, For me it was not good, bad, best.. It was and is 'Perfect'.
But, I really don't know, maybe you should first check the reviews on Goodreeads which has given this book like 1 star… and said all they wanted to, yeah you should check those, Cuz I don't wanna increase one of those pitiful souls who not only didn't like this book, but NO… they absolutely hated it. Yeah, I don't wanna increase that stat. It's ok if you didn't love this book, but wait a sec, HATE this book! How can it be possible man? Like I can read the book for hundredth time, just to come back at the point where it said,
"“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a preacher of sarcastic, inner meaningful, tragic sentences…. and believe me, this was not it. No. Read for yourself, and I bet when you'd come across this line You will slowly put that book on your face and inhale… just the smell… then you will get up and will go towards the first window you will find, you will stand there and smile… smile… smile… and you would love yourself in that moment… not anyone else, not Dex, not Em… not a damn book, but you'd get a longing in soul saying… 'What was that… huh…!' It happened, it really did. Then you'd come back and pick the book up again… and move on from that page. Yeah, you'd learn how to move on, cause you'd feel your eyes burning for the letter that drunk Dexter wrote about visiting Taj Mahal and never sent… How you'd wish that he had. Oh, poor souls! You'd feel terrified when you'd witness how much life can transcend and yet everything we hold close are so, SO transient.
Sometimes midway through the book you'd start feeling sorry for your likeable characters… then slowly that'd fade, I promise that'd. Cuz who are you to feel sorry for some fictional characters, huh? You have your own life problems, your own dreams to chase right…? Then why would every dream you start to chase would remind you about the children's novel Emma wrote? Idk… I told at the beginning, Idfk.
But that's what life is, and that's what this book is, haha… but one thing for sure. Have you ever been to Edinburgh? If no, then you'd fall in love with a place you never ever had been… and if know that place, You sure would fall in love all over again… those century old streets… those castles, hills… evening gas lights… those dawns of waking up, tangled in someone's hug you like… and urging to have a cigarette… those awkward situations of asking for phone numbers… that broken phone call from the lonely station… that kiss… it all happened there, you know! And ah, another thing, whoever is reading this do you love CAS (Cigarettes After Sex) and The Neighborhood…? If yes, then you won't need to read this big ahh review of mine, just pick the book up and read it… You'd know why you love them. Or, if there is someone who happen to not know CAS and Nhbd yet, then give these songs a go first
- K.
- Each Time You Fall in Love
- Apocalypse
- Cry
- A Little Death
- Reflections
- The Beach
- Sweater Weather
- And, I've read ppl asking why Dex and Em like each other…! Lemme ask, do you like your friend? I mean in a friendly way… you sure do right? 'cause he or she is your friend maybe even best friend… now try to recall the moments you first decided to give him/her the designation as your friend. I think you'll get it, eventually. Oooh, that was a big talk, haha. lastly just one thing, read the book, at your own risk, cuz I can assure that… After finishing the book, your 'Goodbyes' won't ever be the same… just a little pre-knowledge. Peace. Period.
by Friendly_Honey7772
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I’m so glad this showed up on my feed. I watched the show a while ago (started it with no clue as to what it was about) and it absolutely wrecked me in the best way possible. I watched it again with my partner this past weekend and so much of it resonated even deeper this time. You’ve just inspired me to read the book too
I have this book and I haven’t read it yet. I just know it’s going to be devastating.