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tragedykery · 2 years ago

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okay I know the purpose of a book is not to have relatable or likeable main characters and using those to as thee criteria to determine if a book is Good is a capital t Terrible way to do literary analysis. However. I think the darkroom of damocles is a shite book to read and I would really really like to show henri osewoudt’s face these fists

#elli rambles #de donkere kamer van damokles #henri osewoudt #ougghh how I hate that guy #the book communicates its point about how you can never know the Real Exact Truth (bc memories are always coloured by the person who has #them) quite well & its premise is really interesting and whatnot #but I think it fell a little short on a few fronts #especially 1) coherency 2) writing style and 3) following through on his own motto (‘er moet nog geen mus van het dak vallen…’)#I understand that how confusing it is also adds to the point of osewoudt’s unreliable narration (namely his mental state)#but it’s Really Fucking Annoying & incredibly hard to read through #loose ends like the one with seeing his mother & sth with fruit? idek know what happened there #and (this is not a criticism of the book—I get that one of the points is that not everyone in the resistance was a good person)#I would just really really like to punch henri osewoudt #the darkroom of damocles

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