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menaquinone's review
3.0
I first wanted to read this in Y1 after doing a PBQ practice from "birthday" and googling the author's name. However, I then got distracted and ended up not reading it.
Overall, it's quite interesting but I couldn't quite grasp the meaning of the stories sometimes - symptomatic of my ineptitude for analysis and complexity of the plot+prose I'm guessing. At some point through the book I wondered if "corridor" is supposed to pay homage to the alienation of contemporary singaporeans owing to the design of our urban spaces which mirrors the design of social policy/norms prescribing certain lifestyles and roles at the expense of undesirable "alternative lifestyles" but realized this was too naive and didn't apply to every story in the book so discarded the thought without an alternative to supplant it.
I rated it a 3/5 mainly because I didn't really understand some of the stories and because I felt they ended too abruptly. I appreciate the value in some open-endedness but at some point a repetition of abstract endings feels a bit too open-ended for my liking.
Overall, it's quite interesting but I couldn't quite grasp the meaning of the stories sometimes - symptomatic of my ineptitude for analysis and complexity of the plot+prose I'm guessing. At some point through the book I wondered if "corridor" is supposed to pay homage to the alienation of contemporary singaporeans owing to the design of our urban spaces which mirrors the design of social policy/norms prescribing certain lifestyles and roles at the expense of undesirable "alternative lifestyles" but realized this was too naive and didn't apply to every story in the book so discarded the thought without an alternative to supplant it.
I rated it a 3/5 mainly because I didn't really understand some of the stories and because I felt they ended too abruptly. I appreciate the value in some open-endedness but at some point a repetition of abstract endings feels a bit too open-ended for my liking.
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