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Title: Lapvona
Series: ———-
Author: Ottessa Moshfegh
Rating: 0.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 190
Words: 79K
From Wikipedia.com
In Lapvona, a corrupt medieval fiefdom, deformed 13 year-old Marek lives with his cruel shepherd father Jude and was nursed from birth by the village witch. When Marek commits a crime, the cruel lord Villiam demands that Jude give Marek to him as reparations, and Marek goes to live in his castle.
This was a perverse book without a single redeeming quality. I cannot fathom a mind that could create such filth. Needless to say I will not be reading anything else by Moshfegh ever again.
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Finding it hard to get a read on what you thought of this one. It’s a maybe?
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You’ve obviously read my nuances just right 😉
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Oh dear. That sheep looks poorly.
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~ in my best star trek voice
“He’s dead, Jim”….
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🤣🤣🤣
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I’m kinda intrigued now.
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I figured somebody would be, no matter what I wrote 🙂
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*That* bad?
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It was a horrible experience. I didn’t write any more in my review because it would have gotten into insult territory and I didn’t want to spend any more time on it than i already had 😦
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There *were* warning signs.
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Oh absolutely. I read Bart’s review (Bormgans) and that was what even decided me to try. So I knew going in it wasn’t going to be my cup of tea. But I didn’t realize just how bad it was really going to be and it just shocked me to realize how other people can think.
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somehow to me it’s worse that a lady wrote it, which is very sexist of me even though I’m a lady.
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I tend to agree with you. But I didn’t want to hurt “certain” people’s cougheddiecough egalitarian feelings 😉
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Oh don’t mind him he’s gone all Gordon Ramsey with a big flat sausage.
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Oh boy. I’m intrigued now.
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Did you read Bart’s review when he reviewed it a month or so ago?
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I remember it vaguely….
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He goes into a lot more detail that will affect if you want to read it or not.
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How did you even find yourself with this in your rotation? I’m curious about the insult-full version of this review now. 🙂
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Bart (Bormgans) read and reviewed a month or two ago (I think, maybe longer though?) and I wanted to see what I would think of, in comparison to what he thought of it. It went pretty much how I expected but I wanted to be sure.
I can’t write it out. I would have gone with personal insults and then some damnation, hellfire and destruction for the author and those enjoyed it. And that’s the nice clean version. I did write some out and then felt very convicted. Joking about damnation is really taking over God’s place (He’s the one who does the final judging, not me) and it goes down paths I don’t think a Christian should go. And by the time this went live, I had read another cthulhu volume, which also had some vileness in it and I loved those, so I had to be careful about being a complete hypocrite.
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Quite the spiritual journey it sent you on though, that’s for sure!
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Yes I thought it wouldn´t work out for you. Brave you tried though. Like you said, there´s Cthulhu too, and I don´t think there´s something morally wrong with having a fantasy like Moshfegg.
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On your last point, you and I are going to have to agree to totally disagree.
If you’d like to slowly discuss it, feel free to email me. It’s not something I want to deal with in the comments right now though.
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I will email you.
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It seems I can´t find your emailadres anymore. I´m pretty sure I didn´t delete our previous conversation, but I tried a few possible keywords in search but nothing turns up.
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bookstooge
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I finished my review of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I have to say because of you I thought a bit about ethics while writing it. Looking forward to your email, but don’t feel pressured.
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I’ve heard about this one and its nature. There were some things about it which made me kind of curious, but that was why I was surprised to see that you even picked it up!
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This was one of those experimental reads for me. Unfortunately, while I suspected it wouldn’t be up my alley, it turned out far worse than I expected.
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