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I heard Karen Russell read and excerpt of her new book "Sleep Donation" on NPR and that lead me to purchase not only that but also this novella. All I can say is "wow". I really love her style of writing. She paints pictures with her words and builds an incredible sense of mood. Her characters are complex and developed in relation to each other. This story was creepy and surreal, but also deeply connected to real life and real world experiences. I highly recommend it.
This induced in me a visceral, bone-deep ache in my ribcage, lasting hours after I finished reading. The unbearable sadness that permeates this story lies just out of reach of articulation, the kind of truth you can barely stand to think about, like a glimpse of an eldritch horror seen from the corner of your eye. Utterly, unspeakably haunting.
boring af
Recently I have complained that some novels I have read would be better as novellas. Some wasted space. Now I find myself in the opposite situation. So much goes on here, in 38 pages. The genre is horror, and I'm uncertain as to whether its aimed at teenagers or adults, but either way it works well. Very different, and top stuff.
This is one of the most frightening and most hauntingly powerful stories I have read about adolescence. About midway through I almost put it down-it was breaking my heart- but glad I broke through. It tells the becoming of a kind of man few of us understand.
Wickedly clever, Russell, has the antagonist evolve into the protagonist. With a dash of fantasy and magical realism, this story is a compassionate look into the darker side of bullying and the reasons for it. Highly recommended. And who isn't scared of scarecrows?
the writer's prose in this is so fucking good even though it's so SICK she describes things! i was disgusted half the time but i also found her ability to even make me feel so disgusted through writing admirable??? ugh it was such an enjoyable read, poisoned by the unpleasing ending and the overwhelming shroud of mystery that made the plot too loose and too broad for the reader to even grasp the possible reasons why these events are happening. i couldn't even fathom that there were reasons or th...
Under 40 pages but a well-developed story about bullies and their victim. It has a creepy edge to it and wonderful descriptions by the author really help develop the sense of foreboding. I like that it doesn't end with all of the questions answered - it adds to the creep-factor.
This was disturbingly sad but very powerful
This book was hard to read because I could keep up with what was going on, it kept going back and forth between current time and flashbacks without warning.
Pretty freaky and disturbing.
By the end of "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis," there's no doubt that if you had to pick who the "bad guy" is, it'd be the protagonist and his friends. Yet the protagonist is so sad, even as he's awful -- his lack of identity, his manic need to justify his cruelty, his cowardice is all so heartbreakingly awful. This story just kicks you in the guts. Nobody is happy, nobody won, all the characters are just eating away at each other and themselves until there's nothing left of anybody.
