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title: "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
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# My Year of Rest and Relaxation

**Brand:** ottessa moshfeghjulia whelanpenguin audio
**Price:** HK$317
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## Customer Reviews

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    Punched in the face > Reading this book
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2018*

To say I hated this book would be the understatement of the century. I am completely baffled by the glowing reviews. It’s not often I read a book that leaves me with such a feeling of anger at having spent the time to read it, but here we are. Every character made my blood boil, especially our narrator, a self indulgent, angry, spiteful, wreckless and insufferable waste of a person. I found the general idea of this book to be interesting, but our narrator is just irredeemable. I kept hoping she wouldn’t wake up and the rest of the book would just be blank pages so that I didn’t have to read anymore.

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    Depressed and depressing
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018*

I was excited to begin reading this book. As I read I became more and more depressed. I don’t know why I kept reading or finished it. If you feel like committing suicide read this book. I would not recommend this book to anyone. I hated it.In short this is a book about a young woman who schemes to use sleeping pills, psychotropic drugs, and alcohol to put herself to sleep for a year. What a horrible idea when so many deaths occur from prescription drug abuse. There were no redeeming qualities to this book including character development.

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    A Brilliant Page-Turner
  

*by H***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2018*

For years I've been longing for a novel that would compell me to read the way I did as a child--voraciously and without distraction. Given the fact that I can barely read anything these days without taking breaks to play Words With Friends, I had all but given up; then came "My Year of Rest and Relaxation." Because the novel and its author, Otessa Moshfegh, are this year's darlings, I hesitated; popular books usually disappoint me. But I read this one in two days, and would have in a single sitting if I'd had the chance. It is simply the best novel I've read by a living author, and one of the best I've read in my life. Moshgegh's unnamed narrator is 26, beautiful and model-like, a Columbia graduate with a degree in art history and a job in a Chelsea art gallery. She's also alone and completely empty inside. Her cold, distant parents died while she was in college; she has no siblings; her unofficial boyfriend is a horrible jerk; her only friend is an annoying bullemic who she mistreats at every opportunity. Caught sleeping on the job, the narrator decides to put her firing to good use by devising a year-long rest cure. Armed with a huge variety of psychotropic drugs, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medications prescribed by a shady, criminally incompetent psychiatrist, she shuts herself in her Upper East Side apartment and, supported by her inheritance and unemployment benefits, starts sleeping full-time. Nevertheless, things keep happening, both to her and to the world, during her fateful year off. Moshfegh's writing is brilliant, but what sets her apart from even the best of her contemporaries is the consistent pace of the novel. There are no dead spots, no dull passages, and none of the unevenness that ruins so many contemporary novels. "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" is that rarest of things: a profound, literary page-turner. I can't wait to read it again, along with everything else Moshfegh has published, and can't recommend it highly enough.

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