The Last Word: an utterly addictive and spine-chilling suspense thriller from the TikTok bestseller for 2023

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I need to go and lie down now as my head is rotating at speed but one thing I can say for sure is that it’s a fun, revengeful entertaining completely different conundrum. Up for the challenge?? I’m not sure how much sleep I get, but when my first alarm goes off, it feels like maybe I’ve shut my eyes for thirty seconds. I have to say I've read some pretty poor books in the last 100 and the Last Word was like Nobel Prize winning literature to some of those that scored better. People clearly really didn't much like this book and I'm really not sure why. It's a dark satire of the modern literary world, its penchant for showering plaudits on writers who can be best described as mediocrities, of the necessities of the publishing business, and duping the public with what's worthwhile and that what is not. The narrative also critiques the faux halo of superiority around great writers: they are normal people like us, not necessarily more intelligent than non-writers, but certainly special as 'word-masters', but despite all, they have the same fears and desires like the rest of us.

I wish I was the kind of person that slept in silk lingerie or slinky posh pajamas, but there’s something comforting about a T-shirt that’s several sizes too big. Liam and I are surely past the point where I have to pretend I always sleep naked, which is the impression I wanted to give off at first. I know who you are, Harper Jenkins,” she says, raising her eyebrows in amusement. “I’ve been waiting to get you alone all night.”Read it and find out what happens, but have a lot of time on your hands, and read this book in broad daylight. The characters are all in their own ways weak and unpleasant but that doesn't make them uninteresting. They have very human failings and I liked most of them in spite of themselves. The book laid out plenty for us to judge whilst perhaps reminding us that few people are perfect - even if they're less perverted than some of this motley bunch. Thoughts: First off let me say, THE DOG IS OKAY. There were so many moments where I got so tense and almost put the book down, but the dog is fine, I promise. This book does include some triggers like suicide and infant death, so be aware of that. This book also has some very specific stereotypes that are a bit basic, like your very classic incel.

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy—or very, very dangerous—in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge. However, I feel that the whole bonding process is not supposed to be achieved, but rather that Hanif intentionally hid away the depth of the characters so we can focus on the isolated psychological/ political aspect of the book, which was straight up impressive but not for everyones stomach.

In my view Kureishi along with many other often-great writers and philosophers tend to overestimate the nature of relationship between the mask and the self. Indeed I suspect the infamous authentic self vs pretend-to-be-persona dichotomy is a false one. All too many attempts to peel off layer after layer of a complex character to get to the true identity miss the point that the sought-after authentic self is a figment of a story we tell ourselves about the person in question. The truth is probably much closer to Jon Elster’s view of human behavior. We all have multiple desires, motivations and abilities and these are heavily modulated by emotions and circumstances. Such desires and motivations can easily co-exist in partial conflict with each other so attributing primacy of authenticity to a particular mental state is utterly misleading in most non-trivial cases. And of course it goes without saying that psychoanalysts are guiltier than most in this department. She can’t escape because the murderer has sabotaged her car, but we’re just supposed to ignore that there came a delivery driver and that car was still present for a large part of the story?

With the knowledge of only three hours’ sleep ahead of me, I will him to shut the hell up. Rudely ignoring me (due to his state of unconsciousness), he continues his nasal symphony until I’m forced to tap him on the arm. The Last Word by Taylor Adams is a highly recommended thriller about repercussions over a one star book review. Emma enjoys the isolation and quiet of house-sitting. The only company she needs is her dog and her books. After showering, I begin my daily morning routine of riffling through my disorganized wardrobe, which is only more difficult in the dark. Just grabbing the best coffee in London before I head to the office,” I say, gesturing to The Lark. “I don’t know what beans they’re using, but this stuff is gold.”

Have you ever wondered how a writer might respond to an unsavory review of his book? What might his reaction be to a one-star review when he worked tirelessly to complete his masterpiece? Reading his book, I recalled a nice example where evolutionary programming fails unless a certain species can reason. Every so often, a working class character appears. Every working class character, without exception, is portrayed as ignorant and racist. One of them becomes more appealling and less racist later in the book, although this seems to happen only because of the influence of the upper middle class people. The book's potrayal of working class people was for me the most annoying and objectionable thing about it. Not only does Kureishi churn out stereotypes of working class life, he also puts dialogue into the mouths of working class characters that is not convincing. In other words, they talk like posh people but behave like posh people's image of them.