The Idiot
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Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.
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I loved this book. It is very funny, has a weird love interest which isn't really central to the plot, but also somehow is.
Good plane reading. While locations and details are obviously different, this book about a freshman at Harvard brought back all the feels of the academic lifestyle.
i loved this but i also cant imagine literally anyone else enjoying this
to say the humor is dry feels like a gross understatement, but it definitely plays into the idea that selin is a naive college freshman and these awkward situations and their consequently dry humor were incredibly amusing to me
i think this is just your average coming of age story, except pretentious (think sally rooney but less weird occurrences). it follows a very typical american 4 year college experience where in your freshman year youre meeting a gazillion new people, getting exposed to a lot of ideas and thoughts that make you pretentious, and falling for the first person to give you a smidgen of attention (like, obsessively falling for)
then the trip through europe was fun, especially for an inexperienced american. the language is nice because it generally lacks any judgment, as though you as the reader are meant to draw your own conclusions.
i absolutely do not recommend this book however unless all of the above appeals to you, and you don't mind 400 pages of it
