[Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick]
GoodReads Updates:
| 01/19 | marked as: | currently-reading | ||
| 01/19 | page 10 | 3.0% | "Just started! Citations are hard to get used to, but intriguing opening! #BOTB1" | |
| 01/19 | page 10 | 3.0% | "Just started! Citations are hard to get used to, but intriguing opening! #BOTB1" | |
| 01/21 | 40.0% | "Got used to the citations pretty quickly. The futuristic emails are SO intriguing and although I find some of Leonard's ideas very whiny and privileged, most of them are so insightful and thought-provoking." | ||
| 01/24 | marked as: | read | ||
Great, haunting read from Matthew Quick. I LOVED The Silver Linings Playbook, so I expected a lot from the YA, and I was not disappointed. A word of caution, however. I wouldn't recommend this for those who are struggling with serious depression or are suicidal, because a lot of Leonard's thoughts and ideas and his very detached nature are very triggering. If you can stomach that, this is a very thought-provoking book. There are many things that I disagree with Leonard about and there were times in the novel that I felt that Leonard was just a very privileged, cynical young man. He does a lot of stupid stuff. But overall, his ideas and musings about the world are very intelligent and shocking. Some of Leonard's large rants were observant and real enough that I had to stop and examine my own life a well as others around me. It is a very important book. Quick has the prose of a sad yet highly intelligent youth down pat. Matthew Quick is pretty brilliant, indeed.
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