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Ten Thousand Saints

von Eleanor Henderson

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When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
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    Der größere Teil der Welt von Jennifer Egan (melmore)
    melmore: Both novels are concerned with the punk scene in the 1980s, both feature lost and wounded protagonists, both trace relationships across decades.
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  jarrettbrown | Jul 4, 2023 |
I struggled with this book. I'd say it was my least enjoyable read of 2014. In fact, there's very little I liked about it. The main reason for this is probably due to my having limited knowledge of New York, in the 80s or at any other time, or punk culture, or straight edge (which I'd never heard of) so much of it was lost on me to begin with. But I got to the end of the book, albeit by skim-reading much of it.

As others have said, there is an awful lot going on. It is as though the author had a list of 'things that went on in 80s New York' and decided that all of them had to go into this story. It led to a confusing plot that went in many directions all at once, and I lost what the main gist of the story was. There were too many characters to follow. Sadly, I didn't find myself liking or caring about any of them. I also got bored with the narration, which often came in large chunks that didn't really add much to the story (hence the skim-reading).

I didn't really realise what the main theme of the book was before I started reading (I felt the blurb on the cover was misleading) or I doubt I would have read it. But it did give me an insight into a time period that I was unaware of before so it isn't all negative.
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  Triduana | Jan 25, 2022 |
Just could not bring myself to care about any of the characters. ( )
  flemertown | Jul 10, 2021 |
Some characters were stronger (Jude, Johnny, Harriet, Les, Rooster) than others (Eliza, Di) but overall, a really affecting look at lost kids and the straight edge movement in the late 80's. I got a visceral feel for the kids' life in Vermont, and in the East Village, but the straight edge music scene seemed less real to me - more described than felt. I wish I got to know Eliza as well as Jude and Johnny. ( )
  badube | Mar 6, 2019 |
Compelling characters - yes. Interesting cultural setting - definitely. Well written prose - yes. Enough plot to keep it interesting - sure! What's missing? A thematic thread to link all of the events and elements together. There were just a few too many different ideas floating around that it was hard to focus on one for any amount of time, let alone for Ms. Henderson to follow through fully with them.

I really enjoyed reading this book - it was a wonderful surprise. I just wish I could have emerged from the end of the book knowing what is was attempting to say. ( )
  Katie_Roscher | Jan 18, 2019 |
Henderson’s book reads in part like an elegy: she follows her characters from 1987 to 2006, long enough to capture the end of the era and its strange aftermath.
hinzugefügt von melmore | bearbeitenThe New Yorker, Alex Beggs (Jun 27, 2011)
 
The ambition of "Ten Thousand Saints," Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac.
hinzugefügt von melmore | bearbeitenNew York Times, Stacey D'Erasmo (Jun 16, 2011)
 
At times, 'Ten Thousand Saints' feels overplotted, as if the author had let her cast of love-and-drug-besotted misfits take the reins. But that haphazardness paired with the sometime painful teenage rites of passage, adds up to a bittersweet, lovely book.
 
"Ten Thousand Saints" is a whirling dervish of a first novel — a planet, a universe, a trip. As wild as that may sound, wonder of wonders, the book is also carefully and lovingly created, taking the reader far into the lives and souls of its characters and bringing them back out again, blinking in the bright light.
 
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Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgement upon all. - The Book of Jude
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