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character development and the setting were very intriguing, but Im too stupid to understand some of the philosophical stuff at the end I loved all of the twists and turns throughout this though my sister, who never reads, is reading this book on her travels in South America.
I am flabbergasted and ecstatic that she's taking the time to read at all, and I must have this book finished by the time she gets back.




update: Welp, I'm really sad to have to take a break from sitelink Against the Day, but it must be done.
This book looks like a quick read, tho, so hopefully I won't forget too much of Pynchon while I'm sidetracked,



update the second Ok, so I admit that I wasn't exactly expecting to love this book, Sis aside, I am generally an unapologetic book snob, and my interests were not piqued by this one, And I wasn't wrong, really, sitelink Society of Others definitely wasn't that good, See, I mean, it starts real shitty, with this very overdone illustration of a totally disaffected, misanthropic, angry twentysomething guy, A lot of 'My parents want me to be happy, but isn't that a lot to ask I mean, they don't actually want me to be happy, they want my happiness to make them feel like they're validated in how they raised me.
. . ' That sort of thing. Dude just hanging out alone in his bedroom, being pissed off that his dad gave him a bunch of money to go on a postcollege vacation, Oh poor baby.

So that's the beginning, Then the middle actually picked up and was rather good, Dude begrudgingly goes on said vacation, but by hitchhiking, and not asking the trucker who picks him up where they're going, So then it switches to a different thing, After driving for days, they're about to cross a serious border, and the trucker asks dude to just hide an envelope in his pocket when they cross, and then of course they come to a roadblock manned by guys with guns, dude has to jump out of the car and run into the forest, while the baddies kill the trucker and set fire to his truck.
So now dude is alone amp scared in a foreign country, he doesn't know where he is amp doesn't speak the language, It's a superrestrictive totalitarian society amp everyone's scared amp repressed, and he goes along, being picked up by various resistance organizations and the like, There's a lot of philosophy, a lot of nice scenes, good intrigue, great characters, and I actually thought I was going to wind up being pleasantly surprised by how good of a book it was.


But no.

Because that's the middle, The end, which you sense is approaching with some trepidation, that dreadinthestomach feeling that shit is going to be bad, was awful, Total, seriously disappointing copout. Suddenly this book, which has been about tangible, interesting things, becomes this dreadful metaphorical nonsense, Total 'twist' ending, but horribly unjustified, Leaving a real bad taste in your mouth, A real bad whydidIbotherwiththiscrap taste,

Sheesh. Back to Pynchon I releivedly go, Loved it. It has a terrific narrator one can really believe in as the whole story becomes kafkaesque and totally involving, I'd only rad one William Nicholson before The Lovers of Amherst which I thought was terrific, This is totally different, beautifully written and well worth a read, Such a versatile writer search him out! Cool, cleareyed, and bluntly cynical, the young narrator of The Society of Others embarks on a journey without a destination.
He hitchhikes through Europe only to find himself in a mystifying country where terrorists are inexplicably after him, and so is a sinister government, In a surreal landscape where people are shot to death without reason and social control runs deep, he must learn who to trustand what to stand for, Fast paced and provocative, a gripping philosophical thriller, The Society of Others is an ingenious meditation on the nature of contemporary innocence and identity, An unusual novel an unnamed narrator decides to find himself on a trip to Eastern Europe, He accidentally gets embroiled in the county's political instability, interacting with the violent state police, the terrorists/freedom fighters, and the mysterious society of others,

It feels a little pretentious to begin with, and even after rereading the final chapter, I still can't work out what happened at the end, However, there is real beauty in this book in both the form of poetry scattered throughout its pages, and the side characters who selflessly help the narrator in his quest to escape the country.
A lot of disturbing philosophical questions in this one, This work is a heavy, intellectual piece of fiction, Hmm. Nem tudom mire számítottam, de nem erre,
Furán indult, fogalmam sem volt, hova akarja vezetni a szerző a főszereplőt, akinek semmi életcélja, Persze kerekedett az egészből egy önkereső történet, de annak kissé extrém, és a végén igazából nem tudtam eldönteni, mi is történt, mi is igaz mindebből
Kicsit túlbonyolított spirituális utazás, amit egy középkeleteurópai ország ! borzalmas rendőrállamába helyeznek el.

Nem tartottam annyira klasszikusan "jónak" ezt a könyvet, mint mások, nem okozott katarzist, viszont azt meg kell hagyni, hogy végig birizgált, érdekelt, és ha egy kicsit kevesebbet coelhozik hála, szeretet, útkeresés, anyagyerek kapcsolat, Jézus és Isten alakja, hit stb.
, és konkrétabb véget kap, akkor nagyon szerettem volna, Így is egyedi és különleges hangulatú, bár ez a különleges hangulat hoz azért rengeteg feszültséget, gyomorgörcsöt, frusztrációt is magával.
. . talán azért, mert pont ilyen elkezdeni élni, egy vegetálás után Hmmhmm,

Bővebben: sitelink blogspot. com/ I bought this advance reading copy of “The Society of Others” at the thrift store forcents, Id seen it on the shelf often, but always ignored it, Finally, I decided to buy it believing there was a reason it kept jumping out at me, It was a good purchase,

A young Englishman, probably in his early to mids, narrates “The Society of Others, ” His father is a successful writer, his mother is an art historian, and his sister is just a sister, The family is financially welloff, His father has met and married another woman and has a child with her however, father is still loved and accepted by his exwife and children, There is love in the family but a lack of understanding of this love on the part of the narrator, The narrator loathes his life and life in general, His idea of living is sleeping the days and nights away in his room watching the TV with the volume turned off, He has no ambition and doesnt care about anything, Thats what we learn in the first two chapters,

Upon graduation from college, the narrators father gives him money and tells him to do whatever he likes with it, He decides to leave home, so he hits the road and hitches a ride with a philosophical trucker, The narrator has no destination in mind, but the trucker does, Hes smuggling books into another country we never know what country, After crashing through the border crossing, the trucker is caught and killed, while the narrator escapes, He then gets caught up with a group of terrorists, the

state and secret police, a peasant family, a school teacher, and a celloplaying priest, among others, Its a sad country, everyones sad, Theres a war between the totalitarian state and the terrorists, and the narrator is in the middle and will play a key role in the outcome,

Throughout the novel, we never learn the narrators name or the name of the country, We can assume its an East European country, The narrator does not know what country he is in and cannot understand the language, In fact, the author does a good job keeping this information from the reader,

“The Society of Others” is a philosophical thriller that reads like a fable, It calls attention to concepts like loyalty, innocence, and identity, Its a little overpages, which is a quick read, However, the ending will have you going back and trying to piece together the philosophical puzzle that is this book,
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