Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Adam Floridia - GoodreadsThe perfect review of The Obscene Bird of Night would actually be this. The image that burned in my brain as I read was Goya's El Gran Cabron Pathetically, that's about the best review I can offer ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Kristen Stopp - GoodreadsMind blowingly sad, surrealistic, beautiful, repulsive - I can't finish it. I am nearly to the end and I still don't know how exactly how I feel about what I've read up to this point. I'm afraid to ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Maureen - Goodreadsthemes of identity, humanity, reality, and belonging cycle through and circle the obscene bird of night. it's not really pleasant to read, though there are moments where a smile is not out of order ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Christine Mccullough - GoodreadsThis is a book that I find it almost impossible to describe the experience of reading. It is so intricate and insane that it must be read for oneself. But it definitely makes you think about existence and life and death in wonderful new ways. Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Chris - GoodreadsThe dark terrors that roil in the benighted depths of the subconscious, bursting forth to poison midnight dreams and shadows, put their stamp on all of the mythologies that man wove from the ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Gena - GoodreadsDerek warned me that this, his 2009 Best Book of the Year, was also the most disturbing read of the year. In both capacities it did not disappoint. A surreal, nightmarish descent into the mind of ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - GoodreadsVery strange and bizarre fair, but quite the fun ride, even the second run was just as extraordinary. Its' narrator/narrative engages you through it's metamorphic journey and does not founder.
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Tait - GoodreadsIt's hard to describe exactly what the book is about, the back cover blurb says it's the story of the last member of an aristocratic family who is born a monster and locked up in a labyrinth of other ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Dawn - GoodreadsI can say with confidence that I have never read a book like this before. I can say with less confidence that this is the case because no one has ever written a book like this before, noting that it ... Leer reseña completa
Review: The Obscene Bird of Night
Reseña de usuario - Gabriel - GoodreadsForget about all of this magical realism claptrap and comparisons to Garcia Marquez et al. Donoso has written a sharpened stick to jab in the world's eye, according to the principles Poe expounded in ... Leer reseña completa