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Shutter Island
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A professor of mine once said, "Regarding of the human mind, we have psychologists, neurologists and philosophers all doing their best to understand how it works, and yet what we do know is so little, almost inconspicuous, compared to what that's left in the dark." I've read Dennis Lehane's other wo ... (continue)
A professor of mine once said, "Regarding of the human mind, we have psychologists, neurologists and philosophers all doing their best to understand how it works, and yet what we do know is so little, almost inconspicuous, compared to what that's left in the dark." I've read Dennis Lehane's other works, the Patrick and Angela series mostly, and came across Shutter Island just this Tuesday. I'm glad I picked it up.
It started off as your usual mystery, someone was missing and the protagonist, Teddy Daniels went to investigate. But as the story unfolded, I found myself completed hooked, invested in every line and scene. I must say it's emotionally exhausting, and beautiful, whether in its integrity of a story, of life, or of a journey into the essentials of mind. It was the dialogue that really got me; so simple and true I could see these characters right in front of me, with fresh and tears and flaws of the each of them. It was almost impossible not to connect with them. They were not all be agreeable but no less believable and human. It broke my heart reading Teddy dreamt of Dolores.
Half way through the book and I already got who the sixty seventh patient was; it didn't stop me from turning the pages, however. It was like how Matthew Scudder put, "The way you'll watch a sad old movie, hoping this time it'll have a happy ending." The helplessness was always there, the inevitable in Teddy's dreams and the staleness in the Ashecliff Hospital. Always there. Throughout the whole story like Teddy's love for his poor dead wife. During the reading there were so many times I had to put the book down, for a few seconds, minutes, just to breathe, not because I was bored, but because of its intensity. Even after the last page, I'm still not over it; probably and hopefully won't in a few days.
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