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Have you ever read/listened to a book that you just can not decide if you really like it or you really hate it? It's the kind of thing that you know intellectually is well written, but the content is just...it's either really brave or really *bad*? And despite that you can't look away because it's sort of like watching a train wreck?
I've spent the morning listening to the audio book "The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart" and that's basically how I feel about it currently. It's kind of disgusting, but kind of funny and I don't know how it is that I can both despise the main characters, and also kind of like them at the same time. I will say, and following the above sentiment, the sex scene in it was one of the most visceral shudder inducing sex scenes I've ever experienced in my entire life. It was....I can't even describe it. It was *nasty* and funny and euphemistic as most sex in real live novels tends to be, but it was strangely erotic and period and...I just DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS BOOK.
ETA:
This quote...I just... *getting odd looks from coworkers right now* I feel so judged.
“What is this fuck?” Martyn asked.
“What?” Hegel said.
“Who?” Manfried said.
“Fuck,” Martyn repeated, “fucking, fuck, fucker- the word you like so much, a slur?”
“Oh, the word fuck!” Manfried laughed. “Yeah, a slur, right enough. Village not too far from our birth-home’s called Fuckin.”
“Why did they name it after a slur?” Asked Martyn.
“Oft I have mused the same question,” said Hegel.
“You have?” Manfried grinned at his brother’s folly. “Hardly suprisin. Nah, Martyn, It’s like this. Fuckin’s a town filled with men what are assholes, but assholes so mecky it don’t serve to just call’em assholes or mecky assholes, or even Maryless mecky assholes, gotta get somethin stronger by a way of differentiatin, to say nuthin a brevity. Hence, we call someone so mecky they might’s well have been from Fuckin a fucker or a fuckwit, or anythin else related to the bein from Fuckin. Yeah?”
There was a long silence on the bench before Hegel cleared his throat. “Or the act of fornication. Bein a mecky deed, the term may be applied there as well.”
I've spent the morning listening to the audio book "The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart" and that's basically how I feel about it currently. It's kind of disgusting, but kind of funny and I don't know how it is that I can both despise the main characters, and also kind of like them at the same time. I will say, and following the above sentiment, the sex scene in it was one of the most visceral shudder inducing sex scenes I've ever experienced in my entire life. It was....I can't even describe it. It was *nasty* and funny and euphemistic as most sex in real live novels tends to be, but it was strangely erotic and period and...I just DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS BOOK.
ETA:
This quote...I just... *getting odd looks from coworkers right now* I feel so judged.
“What is this fuck?” Martyn asked.
“What?” Hegel said.
“Who?” Manfried said.
“Fuck,” Martyn repeated, “fucking, fuck, fucker- the word you like so much, a slur?”
“Oh, the word fuck!” Manfried laughed. “Yeah, a slur, right enough. Village not too far from our birth-home’s called Fuckin.”
“Why did they name it after a slur?” Asked Martyn.
“Oft I have mused the same question,” said Hegel.
“You have?” Manfried grinned at his brother’s folly. “Hardly suprisin. Nah, Martyn, It’s like this. Fuckin’s a town filled with men what are assholes, but assholes so mecky it don’t serve to just call’em assholes or mecky assholes, or even Maryless mecky assholes, gotta get somethin stronger by a way of differentiatin, to say nuthin a brevity. Hence, we call someone so mecky they might’s well have been from Fuckin a fucker or a fuckwit, or anythin else related to the bein from Fuckin. Yeah?”
There was a long silence on the bench before Hegel cleared his throat. “Or the act of fornication. Bein a mecky deed, the term may be applied there as well.”