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mi_tardis's review against another edition
4.0
I found this in a small second hand book shop in Thessaloniki and was very intrigued. It's a very unique book and it's hard to put into words what it made me think or feel. Reading it is a strange, but good experience
invertible_hulk's review
3.0
This one was interesting, but I think most of it went over my head. But I'm glad I read it. If nothing else, it's one more long-standing book off my shelves.
keef's review
5.0
I keep coming back to this book.
It's an odd one, all right- dark to its very core. The narrator grew up with a girl, and in childhood they had devised a series of tests, referred to as The Testing Range, that would give people what they desired in return for the completion of increasingly difficult tasks. Now in adulthood, the narrator's friend from childhood has committed suicide, with a page from their childhood notebooks by her side.
That's the basic opening. The rest of the book is the narrator's attempt, through pages and pages of multiple-choice and essay questions, growing in complexity and interconnectedness, to design a test that he could have given his childhood companion which would have resulted in her choosing not to commit suicide.
As I said, dark to its very core.
It's incredibly beautiful. The prose is poetic, the progression of the questions is intricate and heartrending, and the blood practically drips from every page. I've read it several times, and I periodically pick it up, open to a page at random, and read a question or two from The Plight House test itself.
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
It's an odd one, all right- dark to its very core. The narrator grew up with a girl, and in childhood they had devised a series of tests, referred to as The Testing Range, that would give people what they desired in return for the completion of increasingly difficult tasks. Now in adulthood, the narrator's friend from childhood has committed suicide, with a page from their childhood notebooks by her side.
That's the basic opening. The rest of the book is the narrator's attempt, through pages and pages of multiple-choice and essay questions, growing in complexity and interconnectedness, to design a test that he could have given his childhood companion which would have resulted in her choosing not to commit suicide.
As I said, dark to its very core.
It's incredibly beautiful. The prose is poetic, the progression of the questions is intricate and heartrending, and the blood practically drips from every page. I've read it several times, and I periodically pick it up, open to a page at random, and read a question or two from The Plight House test itself.
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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