Poor Things by Alasdair

BATB score: 6/10 🥴

*reader discretion advised* side back story, after watching “Poor Things” the movie featuring Emma Stone IMDb 8.3, BATB wants to understand what kind of novel [1992] gets selected for film-adaption [2023]

Best as: oh shit, the original novel by Alasdair Gray vs the academy award film by Yorgos Lanthimos is two different individually unique masterpiece 👀

Best to: the novel structure is split based on the characters point of view, written in a memoir first-person in hand-written letters typography, and a lot of anatomy illustrations; then sandwich this story with another overarching premise of someone finding and trying to make sense this memoir #interesting

BATB lingering thought: Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel is one-in-a-million masterpiece and way beyond his time; kudos Yorgos Lanthimos for making it more 21st century friendly; yet, OG Gray will definitely disapprove of Lanthimos adaptation 😂

Best for: definitely serious art in the form of a novel yet not for the average joe readers; complimentary extreme confusion, redefined “difficult to follow”

Best quotes: “History is only a way of looking at the world. We must not mistake it for the world itself.”