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A review by thebobsphere
The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves
3.0
The Absent Therapist is my second Will Eaves novel and like his previous book, Murmur, It’s a bundle of mixed feelings.
On one hand I think he’s a fantastic writer. I mean there’s a lot of pleasure in reading every line he writes. TAT’s structure is a series of paragraphs so the reader is getting bite sized chunks of Eaves’ prose. In theory this means that this bit and pieces should stick in your mind.
However that’s the problem I found with this book. Nothing stuck except the paragraph about boxer shorts – which made me laugh loudly on a bus. Other than that I doubt if I could recall any other part of The Absent Therapist.
That’s all I can say about it really. If you want a memorable book read in fragments then check out Brenda Lozano’s Loop. I fared much better with that.
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On one hand I think he’s a fantastic writer. I mean there’s a lot of pleasure in reading every line he writes. TAT’s structure is a series of paragraphs so the reader is getting bite sized chunks of Eaves’ prose. In theory this means that this bit and pieces should stick in your mind.
However that’s the problem I found with this book. Nothing stuck except the paragraph about boxer shorts – which made me laugh loudly on a bus. Other than that I doubt if I could recall any other part of The Absent Therapist.
That’s all I can say about it really. If you want a memorable book read in fragments then check out Brenda Lozano’s Loop. I fared much better with that.
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