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Originally Posted by Forte I have just read and hated... "Time's arrow" by Martin Amis. It is told backwards which is original but gets a bit wearisome after a while. The main character was a doctor in concentration camps doing obscene experiments on the prisoners and so it was told weirdly in the sense that if it was backwards they were getting syringes taken outof their eyeballs etc and getting better... narrator was getting younger, too. I finished it but didn't like it...  |
Yes I read that at university and hated it too! I think part of the reason I hated it was because it's so disturbing. You read the things that are happening backwards, as they are written in the book, then you reverse it in your head to see what the character is really doing, which then brings horrible images forth. I certainly wouldn't have chosen to read that one - although I guess it does force you to think about things that you might otherwise ignore as they are a bit too horrific!