PARASITE open thread!

[seanan_mcguire]

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was way to obvious to be meant to be sneaky... but Sal's ability to refuse to see what's in front of her, that's interesting and building up to her actually realising it consciously was super interesting.

[ironed_orchid]

Yeah, that's how I read it.

What interested me was that Sal and Toby are alike in the not being able to see how certain facts apply to them until it gets spelled out. Even if they aren't alike in many other ways. I felt like Sal's backstory, and the reinforcement of how much she had to learn in 6 years, which meant she was an adult, but without some forms of maturity, made it believable, as did the potential horror of what she was avoiding thinking about.