Things Said in Dreams Matthew Temple Books
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Terrorized by her high school classmates, she now has the chance to save their lives. Matthew Temple's Things Said in Dreams, the first novel from independent publishing house Sibling Rivalry Press, gives us a female Holden Caulfield and a haunting, memorable story of twisted, dangerous grace.
Things Said in Dreams Matthew Temple Books
'Things Said In Dreams' doesn't leap off the page. It spills from it and washes over you like a steady stream of consciousness, released in a singular breath of spoken word given life by the protagonist.In a way, the plot is secondary to the sheer experience of chasing the story. It seems to race ahead, with characters and relationships appearing from nowhere, each quite organic, but some seeming to want further exploration. Yet that never seems to hinder the flat-out, take-no-prisoners style which Temple wields deftly.
When I finished, I knew what had happened, and how, with even a hint of 'why', but I realized that I was exhausted. This is not a bad thing in any way. Temple has created a mature, complex experience that is more pursuit than novel, where the story is first out of the starting blocks and you are close behind, never ahead.
A thoroughly enjoyable book for readers seeking a deep, driven narrative.
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Things Said in Dreams Matthew Temple Books Reviews
Mathew Temple presents his novel THINGS SAID IN DREAMS as more than a story, though a story is very much present in the midst of all the magical things he does with thoughts and internal conversations that come to us through the mind of his principle character - one 16 year old very strange girl whose mental state and physical state can only be understood by following the vagaries of her own Betz cells.
This novel must be as close to the mentation of a physically and sexually and emotionally challenged teenager traversing the corridors of her high school and her out of school maze trying to make sense of her pets, her strange boy friend, her boyfriend's sister (the descriptions of her sensual obsession with that sister's body and accoutrements is at once hilarious and erotic) as any author has accomplished to date. Yes, there is a lot of `vulgarity' for lack of a better term for early physical exploration, dialogue with her classmates with some very bizarre moments. But the glory of the writing is the ongoing unspoken dialogue our strange girl has with us, the reader. It is all over the place crazy at times, disjointed, flights of fancy, discombobulated for pages, but reading this wondrous work is very much akin to wandering in and out of a performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations - complex, wild at times, tender at times and in the end finding center the way Bach's variations are indeed variations.
`Ok. Ok. All your solutions are wrapped up in the same pieces that form your problems. There aren't any new pieces. Just rearrange existing ones and cancel things out, like algebra. Get out of the tub. Unstop the water. Try reading a really subversive book and see if that helps. If we have any.' That is a little taste of how her mind puts the world together in a manner she can comprehend, and in lasting through the entire story with her means of communicating this very private mind with us is as satisfying a literary experience as has come down the pike in a novel form in a long time. Watch Matthew Temple grow. Next time around he may be a male.....Grady Harp, September 12
Ridiculous book with awful writing. The book is almost as bad as the trollish and hateful author himself. What did I expect from a guy who drinks cheap wine in his moms basement, paints all his nails, and trolls online websites to spew hate?
The first thing I did after finishing Things Said In Dreams by Matthew Temple was to give my two cats something extra good to eat. If you read the book, you will understand why.
Things Said In Dreams sits comfortably in the field of literary fiction, contemporary literary fiction.
The protagonist is a sixteen year old girl who lives in a small town somewhere in the US where she goes to high school. Her boyfriend is popular at school, she is not. She also has a small crush on her boyfriend's sister, Jenna, even though Jenna hates her with all the passion of a teenage queen. The protagonist also has a sickly kitten, whom she for various reasons hesitate to treat well.
We follow the protagonist through 48 hours, during which her life, her boyfriend, her friends, her classmates and her school are shook up and faced with their own fallacies and vulnerabilities.
We meet the protagonist, her friends and enemies and teachers and co-students, and see the hundred of ways we have of assuming, judging and making each other irrelevant, because we perceive others as not us; different because of how they look, think and express themselves.
But by showing us the mind and heart of this girl, her reflections, thoughts, worries, cares, false courage, real courage, her bare bones humanity, we get a real sense of how false the assumption of otherness is.
By becoming familiar with the protagonist, we understand that the same quiet desperation and hunger to understand oneself and the world, to be understood, the search for meaning and connection, lives in all the other kids at school, even in her malicious bullies.
Even with the very modern, or one might say, post-modern, conflicts and events at the end, the book taps into something timeless and deeply human, which Mr. Temple communicates with impressive precision, sensitivity and scope.
The words and text flows smoothly and freely, and this, combined with the events themselves, the main protagonist and the transformative conclusion, makes Things Said In Dreams an impressive and deeply sympathetic work.
'Things Said In Dreams' doesn't leap off the page. It spills from it and washes over you like a steady stream of consciousness, released in a singular breath of spoken word given life by the protagonist.
In a way, the plot is secondary to the sheer experience of chasing the story. It seems to race ahead, with characters and relationships appearing from nowhere, each quite organic, but some seeming to want further exploration. Yet that never seems to hinder the flat-out, take-no-prisoners style which Temple wields deftly.
When I finished, I knew what had happened, and how, with even a hint of 'why', but I realized that I was exhausted. This is not a bad thing in any way. Temple has created a mature, complex experience that is more pursuit than novel, where the story is first out of the starting blocks and you are close behind, never ahead.
A thoroughly enjoyable book for readers seeking a deep, driven narrative.
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