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This book is shorter novella, only around 150 pages. Originally written in Japanese.

I felt really emotionally invested in it, the entire book takes place in only one location. By the end of it you feel you know all the characters inside out.

Only criticism, there was a stone left unturned, and one part of the story that wasn't really explored. Still, a well crafted book. 7.5/10.
 

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Only criticism, there was a stone left unturned, and one part of the story that wasn't really explored.
There was a part 2!
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Even shorter, 120 pages, finished in a day.

I feel like this book introduced so much more to expand into. It's an endless rabbit hole.
 

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I just started reading "Rise and Kill First" by Ronen Bergman.
It’s a history of Israel's clandestine intelligence services' use of targeted assassinations as a weapon of covert warfare. Really interesting.
 

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Moth Smoke book review, brought to you by @CerealKiller: eradicate all cereals.
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Some stories are linear. They have a start, they progress onwards, and eventually, they finish. Sometimes, they start in the end, and go backwards. Other times, in the middle, as you see past and present unfolding simultaneously.

Moth Smoke isn't a straight line. It's a map. You start in the middle, an entire world shrouded in clouds. Slowly, the clouds clear, bringing more and more events to light. The story expands in every direction, all at once. Different perspectives, from first person to third person to even second person POV.

The storyline itself was alright, a man slowly falling into insanity as his life crumbles before him. There are no heroes, everyone is a villain. Some of the stuff isn't what I'd usually read but I don't mind. But it was the Frankenstein of a storytelling method that really kept me reading, brilliant.
 

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Moth Smoke book review, brought to you by @CerealKiller: eradicate all cereals.
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Some stories are linear. They have a start, they progress onwards, and eventually, they finish. Sometimes, they start in the end, and go backwards. Other times, in the middle, as you see past and present unfolding simultaneously.

Moth Smoke isn't a straight line. It's a map. You start in the middle, an entire world shrouded in clouds. Slowly, the clouds clear, bringing more and more events to light. The story expands in every direction, all at once. Different perspectives, from first person to third person to even second person POV.

The storyline itself was alright, a man slowly falling into insanity as his life crumbles before him. There are no heroes, everyone is a villain. Some of the stuff isn't what I'd usually read but I don't mind. But it was the Frankenstein of a storytelling method that really kept me reading, brilliant.
This is exactly why i wanna write a screenplay for this. The perspective is so unique.
 

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Both are historical fiction about the Syrian civil war. I think I preferred the storytelling of the first one but the second one offers interesting moral dilemmas that I never thought about before

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bit of family drama. part of the book is set in jamaica in the 50s and 60s, so it was also really interesting to see the culture written about

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loved the plot twist on this one. also interesting look into the mind of the psychotherapist, a job which i'd never really thought about how it must be like

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It's 1000 pages long, i gave up around halfway through. still a pretty good read from what i read. set in india.

gosh i should be paid to do this
 

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