Ren itibaren Ostrów-Kolonia, Polónia
I really liked this. I'm not a memoir person, but this one caught my eye and I'm glad it did. You can read the synopsis to get the idea of the story. I'll just say that I enjoyed it - and that it makes you realize that your own life isn't all that bad!
Kim Harrison never fails to deliver a great book!
It was with hesitation that I started No Exit, because I previously found Sartre's philosophical writing (specifically, Being and Nothingness) inaccessible, and his novel Nausea unfocused. Not only was I pleasantly surprised, but I was genuinely moved by No Exit. Impressively, despite the ordinariness of the characters, they are irritating, annoying, and so foreign to us that by the time Garcin announces that "Hell is other people," we know perfectly well what he's talking about. Or at least, we think we do. Maybe we don't, and that's even scarier. What's definitely true is that after reading No Exit, Nietzsche's statement that "when you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes back at you" resonates stronger than ever.