Comments | writtenkith: When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten

writtenkith

When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten

Feb 26, 2005 05:52

Hey, look! I'm still alive!

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metatherian February 26 2005, 11:46:08 UTC

I just read When I was Five I Killed Myself and felt kind of sour on it but a bit unsure. In some ways I liked the characterisation of the intense friendship/love/attraction between the two kids but it did seem badly exaggerated (maybe that was purposeful, I don't know); pretty turgid overall. Once I was into reading it I read the author blurb (I usually avoid reading stuff on book jackets til I'm through reading the book)and thought "oh god I'm reading a book by a psychiatrist and a clown and that's popular in France" (all things I have ridiculously generalised biases against! I was kind of joking in moaning about it, BUT...). I didn't realise he practised in France. The book blurbs seemed to be (re)asserting his American-ness ( ... )

metatherian February 26 2005, 11:47:38 UTC

oops sorry for asking you that q about the book; I hadn't quite got it fixed in my mind that it wasn't this book you just read.

writtenkith February 26 2005, 12:00:43 UTC

:) No worries, like I said I can't remember much of the first book-- I know something must have made me read it quickly because I'm usually reading many books at once, but could have been an easy style of writing though. "clumsily attention-grabbing" is a good description of what I noticed in his other book on autism.

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urbandelirium February 28 2005, 10:03:24 UTC

;) Then my day is complete...mwahaha.