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Loading... The Piscesby Melissa Broder
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |  Well, what did I like? As mentioned, I liked the cover and the title; I liked the new age references; I liked that it took place (mostly) in Venice, Calfornia; I liked that the main character was a student working on a thesis; I liked that the main character was living a parallel life to the poet she was studying; I liked that the relationship aspect put me in mind of a highly exaggerated version of my 20's. But it was hard to listen to. I might have entitled it "Confessions of a Sex Addict". The language and graphic details put it in the "definitely not my genre" category. (  ) TraSea | Apr 29, 2024 | ) tenamouse67 | Dec 17, 2023 | my first five stars fiction novel. ok. let's sit with this for a minute. OKAY!!! first of all, i don't think this book is for everyone. it is certainly very polarizing and has a couple offputting scenes. i also think that this book found me at the right time going into this, i thought that it would be a merman love story. me? i love fantasy romance with Monster Lovers. and yet. i have never been so happy to be wrong, and instead, to be met with CONTEMPORARY FICTION!!! but not just any contemporary fiction, no, THE BEST CONTEMPORARY FICTION NOVEL I'VE READ! /THIS/ is what i want when i seek out contemporary fiction, i never find it. i am never so satisfied. everything i wanted ****** ********* to be but it wasn't this book was so interesting. there's just so much to chew on. i love how she explored consumerist capitalist culture, the main character's toxic self indulgence, i love how she processes her breakup and how she compares her life with her thesis on sappho!! and hookup culture? existential dread? and MERMEN? i will leave my hangups in the spoilers below: 1. dog die :( was it necessary? 2. the scene where she picks her shit out with her finger made me feel sick 3. ultimately i still don't know how i feel about the ending? i kind of wanted her to go with the merman and die lol i will be thinking about this for weeks!!! and i will stop judging books by their covers, because her other two books have covers that offput me. But Now I Know (  ) telamy | Nov 6, 2023 | Utterly bizarre with an absolute mess for a main character who really needs therapy. It was however quite entertaining. The real victim here though was the little doggie. (  ) spiritedstardust | Dec 29, 2022 |
 Broder’s preoccupations — and sometimes her prose — mirror her essays and poetry and tweets, but she has also allowed her social-media style and substance to blossom. “The Pisces” is part satire, part fairy tale and, sometimes jarringly, part meditation on addiction. In the end, The Pisces is a novel that eludes any form of easy classification, and it’s all the stronger for it. “The Pisces” convincingly romances the void. It would be easy to dismiss Lucy as a foil for Broder and to write them both, author and character alike, off as insufferable. Lucy’s uncomfortable confessions match Broder’s essay collection So Sad Today in their frantic key, and some of the novel’s dialogue even matches the conversations she documents in her nonfiction [...] Yet Broder has Lucy confess to the things so many of us spend our lives trying to hide—fretting over the state of our pubes, yearning for love—that it is a relief to see them finally reflected back on the page. Seeing Lucy battle with herself is at times cringeworthy, but that is because it is also insistently honest. Broder’s voice has a funny, frank Amy Schumer feel to it, injected with moments of a Lydia Davis-type abstraction that can turn the existence of a woman walking by in skimpy silk shorts into a meditation on meaninglessness. These are often the strongest moves of the novel’s voice: from the minor keen observation into the resonant theoretical. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION "Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic - there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it." --Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety -- not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection. Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy's understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have. No library descriptions found. |
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