00:00Three very famous books that everyone loved, but that I honestly would never read again.
00:04Let's start with what might perhaps generate a little more criticism, American Psycho.
00:08This book is sold as a very strong criticism of a certain model of capitalism of the 1980s.
00:13and to the YAPI culture, a true acronym for Young Urban Professional,
00:18characterized by young professionals who were career-obsessed,
00:22from unbridled consumerism and promoted the ostentation of wealth and the pursuit of individual success.
00:27All these concepts are very clear both for the protagonist who uses Alice and for the writing style
00:32and here we have the first problem.
00:34The style is deliberately repetitive, wordy and heavy.
00:37Okay, you want me to live inside the head of a psychopath, but honestly, 400 pages of this kind are just too much.
00:44The second problem for me is that the criticism that everyone is talking about could have been expressed in a much more
00:48effective,
00:49in the sense that it is not perceived, there has never been a moment in which I understood
00:53ah ok Alice is actually criticizing this model.
00:56Now I'm not saying that all stories have to be as clear as Blindness or Exquisite Corpse,
01:01but it seemed to me that that part was missing.
01:04Then thinking about it I realized that Mary Camp Psycho uses narration more for a mental experience
01:08and hopes that an idea will emerge from that mental experience.
01:10The second book is The Stranger.
01:12This book left me with nothing, I simply read it, put it away and didn't think about it.
01:17more.
01:17And basically there's nothing wrong with that, I just expected a very different reaction,
01:20given the hype surrounding it.
01:22I would say that this book has become a bit more inflated because some people know Camus as a philosopher
01:27and therefore they appreciate, let's say, his thinking.
01:30What Camus asks himself in this story is certainly very interesting,
01:33or how a man would be judged who refuses to feign the feelings that society expects of him.
01:38During the story the protagonist is a man, and he is put on trial.
01:42During the trial, however, he realizes that he is not judged so much for the crime he committed,
01:45but above all because he doesn't play the role one would expect from a, let's say, normal person.
01:50Even though the story is interesting, I didn't find any reflections that were particularly profound or triggering.
01:56I mean, I had nothing left, I just closed the book and said, well, it was like I hadn't had it.
02:01Bed.
02:01Finally, one of the books that made me cry the most, A Life Like Many Others.
02:05Well, actually, it's not that I didn't like this book, it's just that I wouldn't read it again.
02:08I didn't actually find any reflections that I then took with me.
02:12and I read it above all because I was very curious to know how far the atrocities that this
02:19poor Christ suffers.
02:20It's a good book to cry about, to become very fond of the protagonist.
02:24Nothing can be said about this because one empathizes too well.
02:27The book is about friendship, love, trauma, impossibility, healing.
02:31However, the novel does not develop a precise thesis around these arguments,
02:34in fact the author also said that she did not want to offer a therapeutic story
02:38or give a reassuring message about recovery.
02:40And this, even though it divided a lot of people, actually wasn't a problem for me.
02:44It's more the fact that after a thousand pages it passes.
02:47Ok, it made me cry all the tears I hadn't cried in twenty years,
02:51but it's not like I actually had anything left to think about.
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