The Elephant Vanishes

I don\’t know if its the bad narration here or what that makes this so entirely bad. There are multiple narrators and particularly there is this one guy who talks in this way where he sounds like a snooty pseudo-intellectual wearing a bow-tie or something. Reads it like he\’s talking to a child too. But also, I think this author might be SUPER OVER-RATED. You can\’t type \’surreal books\’ into a search engine without seeing his name. I feel like it lend to imitators that might saturate the market with really shallow prose. Reminds me when a person goes to art school and instead of thinking about their artwork and really contemplated it they pull that cheap hippie-dippy move of \”I just get out the canvas and just let it flow through me, man\”. Well I tell you what that sounds more like the process of taking a shit than crafting a work of art to me. His style sounds like he\’s just making this stuff up on the spot. Not in any truely hypnotic or symbolic way that someone like Lewis Carroll might. It literally sounds like he sits down in a cafe or something and goes, \”Okay time to get the ole\’ genius brain going. What do we write about today? hmm…\” (Looks around) \”Ah, Hamburger Steak… but it wasn\’t an ordinary hamburger steak noooo.\” Like, get out of here with that. Pssh.

I\’m not sure if this book was poorly translated.. but it is the dullest book in have ever read. Completely redundant and lacks originality. If I knew I could return an audible purchase I definitely would\’ve sent this back.

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