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lizshayne 's review for:
Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
I feel like I've been reading this book for forever, which makes sense, given that I've been listening to it in short bursts.
It reminds me of how much I dislike magical realism. I feel like I need to sit down with it and think about what it's doing with the Frankenstein archetype and modern warfare and I also feel entirely ill equipped to think about it in conversation with a situation I know nothing about. Which leaves me in the very odd place of finding the "made a monster" bits to be the least interesting part of the book.
It reminds me of how much I dislike magical realism. I feel like I need to sit down with it and think about what it's doing with the Frankenstein archetype and modern warfare and I also feel entirely ill equipped to think about it in conversation with a situation I know nothing about. Which leaves me in the very odd place of finding the "made a monster" bits to be the least interesting part of the book.