Obviously, the people who bitched saw themselves in the story and are nothing more than fucking narcissists who wanted further attention.
Sometimes, you make a stupid mistake. You sleep with people you shouldn't. You wake up, you eat and you realize someone else is going to think you're a whore, whether you are or not.
Who gives a damn about the men, anyway? They acted in a manner of most men. They fucked, they ate, they left.
And the girl has to clean up the mess.
I dug it.
--JC
10/27 |
I was annoyed by the pointless vegan bashing.
--RA
10/24 |
a definite misstep. poorly thought-out and written, seemingly without focus or purpose. boooo.
--bk1
10/24 |
Don't pay any attention to them, writer. I liked it because of the title and the rhythm. I don't think it's intellectual. I don't think it's psuedo-intellectual. I don't think it's sad. I don't think it's anything more than what it is.
In his little letter to the writer, an anonymous source tells Edwardo Galeano: "There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write. And at your age it's time you learned." That's true of all of us, ain't it? And Steve Earle: "i come to you with empty hands/ I guess I just forgot again" so do we all
--jw
10/23 |
....I liked the header picture.....
--J
10/23 |
apparently, some people in this feedback section have never woken up in the morning between two people, not remembering anything about the night before. bravo, sheila heti, for nailing the desolation of youth. sometimes good fiction doesn't come pre-packaged with pretty little stylistic bows.
--jds
10/23 |
The word "and" is used far to much.
--hh
10/23 |
Seeing as this "The Girl Who Planted Flowers" is exerpted from a longer story, I quite liked it. Giving us a sense of the characters and settings through an accesible style lets the reader do their own filling in and such a style becomes more powerful as one reads. Kind of like adult comic books do. They are more about what is not said. And nice job of illustrating the pathos of modern male-female adolescence. So sad, those boys. I especially like that the role of shame has somehow reversed itself in modernity, with the female character having the power of knowing what she feels vs. young men who are confused to the point of being ashamed. Truthfull. Thanks.
--O.G.
10/23 |
If the point was to be leave us with a feeling of nothingness and frustration. Sure, fine, you did that. But truth be told that was not so hard to achieve. THis is a true pseudo-intellectual piece if ever there was one.
--mean
10/23 |
What Happend in your story? What was the reason this was told? Is there any significance between the narrator and the actions or the audience. It seems unecessary and incomplete - yet it is interesting and held my attention. It does not have any bearing - I want more story to fill it up ... Hmm?
--P
10/23 |
teenager existentialism?
wo es partied, soll ich werden?
I frequently wakes up to what it did, and then, I either explains it, says 'I did it because of this or that,' or just remains in that other bleak place where things don't really matter, are not really felt.
--HSE
10/23 |
I hope saying that I won't be reading the rest of the story is being disrespectful.
--lh
10/23 |
Such malaise, and none of her characters seem particularly redeemable. Sad, really, that no one finds even a shred of release.
--PM
10/23 |
Is this part of the Christian Coalitions' campaign for abstinence and morality?
--CC
10/23 |
please. you have good intentions, but need to work more on the execution. perhaps rereading those raymond carver short stories would be a good idea.
it just gets a little too obvious.
--eva
10/23 |
What a depressingly vivid descrption of a very low point in this girl's life. I hope there has since been experiences as beautiful and filled with color as this one is gray and empty.
--ajh
10/23 |
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