A Shining

Jon Fosse
2023
Rating: 3

This was not much of a book and felt pretty dialed-in. It’s short, under 100 pages, but it was either too short, or too long. The language is very repetitive, as our the thoughts of the protagonist. An observation is made, and then challenged, and then re-made, and then re-challenged, in the same repeating pattern, ad nauseum.

It had the beginning of an interesting premise: man gets stuck in woods and decides to just wander into the woods, and weird shit happens, but the book did not bring this premise to life. The language is very plain … yeah, that’s kind of the jist of it. Do not bother reading this book.