Finished reading: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 📚
Rejection is an achievement of modern writing. It is an entirely contemporary work that still manages to be thoughtful, deep, and more than funny enough to leave you defenseless. That being said, it is also a deeply uncomfortable book, filled with characters that I know, that I hate, that I pity, and that I see myself in. It seems to me that most authors that try to tackle the consequences of terminal onliness fail by making the technology central. Tulathimutte keeps humanity at the core, even when traversing the strange, the cringe, the uncomfortable, the crude, and the perverse. I want to write a longer post about this book, but only after I talk about it with more people and process the experience that reading this book was. If you have read it, please hmu.
What I will say is this:
- The ending of this book is, perhaps, one of the most impressive endings I have ever read and far surpassed my expectations.
- More than usual, this book invited people to ask “what are you reading?” I am not sure if it’s the book cover, the title, or something unusual in how engaged I was in the book, but I noticed right away that people were curious about this one. It’s a good conversation starter, which makes me like it more.