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*** This comment contains spoilers! ***
Brilliant!
Few other English writers could delight me as Hornby. He’s able to create characters by taking a picture of their weak points, even those you don’t want to see or admit. In this case, the protagonists of the story are four suicidal characters seeming to have very different backgrounds and personalit ... (continue)
Few other English writers could delight me as Hornby. He’s able to create characters by taking a picture of their weak points, even those you don’t want to see or admit. In this case, the protagonists of the story are four suicidal characters seeming to have very different backgrounds and personalities. They have each come to jump to their death, but none of them will complete the act of suicide. And Hornby confirms his depth of his death concept without drowning in a vat of sap or annoying.
As usual, the story has not an ending. There’s not a lesson to teach about life and neither a good way or a bad one. There’s just life to live or not.
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"Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And me. Suicide was supposed to be cool."
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