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Eternal Life by Dara Horn
Jan. 19th, 2019 11:42 amEternal Life
2/5. Woman who has lived for two thousand years decides she wants to die around the time humanity is seriously investigating immortality technology.
Oh, my father-in-law. I like spec fic; he likes The New Yorker. So, because he is a kind man, he buys me audiobooks of things he reads about in The New Yorker that have a spec fic slant. This is almost never successful.
Case in point. This is one of those litfic novels that probably gets described as "luminous," and "brimming with insights into the human condition." Meanwhile, I found it an uninteresting story about a woman who has lived for two millennia, had many many lives, and yet whose only identities of note are "wife" and "mother," and who has by all appearances spent that entire time failing to get over her loser-creep ex. This book has such a narrow, prescribed notion of women's lives in history, it has to be willful. Right? Right?
I do wonder if someone with a much deeper connection to Jewish spirituality would get more out of this than I did. But otherwise nope nope nope. Stop fucking the loser-creep ex two thousand years later, good God.
2/5. Woman who has lived for two thousand years decides she wants to die around the time humanity is seriously investigating immortality technology.
Oh, my father-in-law. I like spec fic; he likes The New Yorker. So, because he is a kind man, he buys me audiobooks of things he reads about in The New Yorker that have a spec fic slant. This is almost never successful.
Case in point. This is one of those litfic novels that probably gets described as "luminous," and "brimming with insights into the human condition." Meanwhile, I found it an uninteresting story about a woman who has lived for two millennia, had many many lives, and yet whose only identities of note are "wife" and "mother," and who has by all appearances spent that entire time failing to get over her loser-creep ex. This book has such a narrow, prescribed notion of women's lives in history, it has to be willful. Right? Right?
I do wonder if someone with a much deeper connection to Jewish spirituality would get more out of this than I did. But otherwise nope nope nope. Stop fucking the loser-creep ex two thousand years later, good God.