Lense of the World by R.A. MacAvoy
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2/5. Upon the king's request, his adviser writes a memoir of his early years at school and then making his way out in the world where he learns strange skills and discovers his complicated heritage.
This is doing things, but I didn't like them much. There is something truly unpleasant in reading a narrator being casually ironical about years of abuse – sexual, emotional, physical – and continuing to care deeply for one of his abusers for the rest of his life. I mean, this is a story that can be told, this is a thing that happens. But it really raises some questions in a book that is about training the mind to see the world clearly, and to see yourself accurately in it.
2/5. Upon the king's request, his adviser writes a memoir of his early years at school and then making his way out in the world where he learns strange skills and discovers his complicated heritage.
This is doing things, but I didn't like them much. There is something truly unpleasant in reading a narrator being casually ironical about years of abuse – sexual, emotional, physical – and continuing to care deeply for one of his abusers for the rest of his life. I mean, this is a story that can be told, this is a thing that happens. But it really raises some questions in a book that is about training the mind to see the world clearly, and to see yourself accurately in it.