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⌈ Secret Post #3372 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Most pretentious thing you've ever read

[(Anonymous)]

That's my Mom's favorite book. I haven't read it. Why is it pretentious?

Re: Most pretentious thing you've ever read

[(Anonymous)]

There are certain people who will hear "French novel written by Philosophy prof" and immediately label a book pretentious. I am for the most part not such a person; "philosophical novel" would usually be a selling point for me, and certainly was the case here. But I think I can relate to the folks mentioned above if they were constantly subjected to books like this one.

Let's say... from the quirky title and plot summary and Frenchness of it all, you might find yourself expecting something sweetly whimsical like Amélie. Well, this book is the anti-Amélie--in the sense that Amélie is about a lonely, eccentric person who actively changes the lives of the people around her and finds a happy ending in the process. EOTH is about two lonely, eccentric people who do sweet fuckall to change anything about their own (miserable) lives or the lives of those around them (whom they detest for being so anti-intellectual). They find a happy ending anyway, in the form of a charming Japanese gentleman -- Orientalism or well-disguised weeaboo lust, I just can't decide, either way anime is somehow involved. To say nothing of the actual ending, urgh.

Even the philosophical themes are poorly done, in turns pedantic and sophomoric. Nothing you wouldn't glean from a couple of freshman seminars, which I guess makes sense given who's writing this mess.