Björn recenserade You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine av Alexandra Kleeman
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Kleeman studied creative writing and cognitive science at Brown University, and received an MFA from Columbia University in 2012.
No shit.
Maybe I'm unfair. Maybe it's just that I just read the not-entirely-dissimilar but far superior My Year of Rest and Relaxation the other day, but YDCHABLM does indeed feel more like a writing exercise than an actual novel, and not an entirely successful one either. There are good ideas in here - a society based on empty calories both in food, self-awareness and relationships, applied gnosticism, a sort of Pynchon-lite absurdism with both fake TV commercials and secret societies etc - but overall, it doesn't work. The novel feels just as super- and artificial as the society it tries to satirize.
Kleeman studied creative writing and cognitive science at Brown University, and received an MFA from Columbia University in 2012.
No shit.
Maybe I'm unfair. Maybe it's just that I just read the not-entirely-dissimilar but far superior My Year of Rest and Relaxation the other day, but YDCHABLM does indeed feel more like a writing exercise than an actual novel, and not an entirely successful one either. There are good ideas in here - a society based on empty calories both in food, self-awareness and relationships, applied gnosticism, a sort of Pynchon-lite absurdism with both fake TV commercials and secret societies etc - but overall, it doesn't work. The novel feels just as super- and artificial as the society it tries to satirize.