The Voyeur

The rest is up to the reader to decide. It's like a puzzle, and time is constantly in flux. The salesman may spot a seagull spying on him from above while walking the town streets, when suddenly he's a child looking at a gull outside his old bedroom window. We never really know what he is feeling throughout the novel, only what he's seeing and experiencing, or remembering.

But there's no real meaning attached to his thoughts. That, again, is for the reader to determine, or invent. Many of the events are told out of order. Sometimes we will witness the same scene multiple times, with multiple outcomes. Which is real, which is imagined? What carried me through the novel, more so than the underlying mystery, was its eerie, almost David Lynchian atmosphere, as well as its unorthodox structure. Robbe-Grillet's repetitive phrasing and relentless detailing of the protagonist's surroundings was rather hypnotic, which I liked, only "hypnotic" can easily turn into "sleep-inducing" when I'm reading late at night.

The beguiling effect it had on me was similar to what little I've read of John Hawkes' and Anna Kavan's more surrealist works, but even more disorienting, imo. Even though it didn't keep me entirely engaged, I've already got a couple more Robbe-Grillet novels lined-up, so it didn't leave me totally cold. But in a good way, I think. View all 6 comments. Nov 20, Paul Bryant rated it did not like it Shelves: This was the one which convinced me that I didn't have to finish a book if it became as painful as having my toes gnawed off one by one by the neighbour's strange nine-year-old son.

I realised the author was the guy who wrote the script for Last Year at Marienbad which is the all time quintessence of French cinematic 60s avant-gardery. Dig the Wikipedia plot summary Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorientating shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships between the charact This was the one which convinced me that I didn't have to finish a book if it became as painful as having my toes gnawed off one by one by the neighbour's strange nine-year-old son.

Dig the Wikipedia plot summary Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorientating shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships between the characters. The characters are unnamed in the film; in the published screenplay, the woman is referred to as "A", the first man is "X", and the man who may be her husband is "M". I'm not saying the book is as bad as the movie, not at all. But something happened on page 84, which broke the terrible monotony. I found an insect squashed there.

I imagined its last thoughts: Oh no, this is not a large flat black and white flower petal, it's something else I took the tiny corpse to be a sign saying that if I carried on Alain Robbe-Grillet would squash the life out of me too. Metaphors can be helpful, even obvious ones. Thank you little dead bug, you did not die in vain.

View all 8 comments. Apr 29, Stephen P rated it really liked it. It was as if no one had heard.

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The whistle blew again-a shrill, prolonged noise followed by three short blasts of ear-splitting violence: This is the beginning of Robbe-Grillet's, The Voyuer. What are we to make of it? Continous, obstinate, simple declarative observations of concrete objects. Is this the vision of a pursuer, pursued, a keen detective, the cultured pen of a writer who threatens the accumulation of metaphoric meaning?

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The te It was as if no one had heard. The tension approaches unbearable. The narrator is absent. In this opened space we slip into the story. We do not see the character Mathias on a three hour boat trip back to the island of his youth, or the large eyed little girl reminding him of Violet. We do not see as him. We see the objects. Their weight, the burden of loneliness accumulating on our shoulders, massing, unrelenting. We have to be wary of exact but false memories which would substitute themselves for the original earth and stones.

We are here to sell watches. As a rat in a skinner Box we press a bar to make a pellet of food appear even if not hungry. We must quadrant and parcel our time before arriving down to a minute, a second, to maximize the most efficiency. Robbe-Grillet makes it difficult for us. We just need to sell the watches and get back to the return boat before it leaves in the late afternoon.

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This is important, for us to return. Also to locate our past, the possibility of undoing in time what has been done? He shifts us in time from the past to the present and back. Their is the disappearance of transitions, of Robbe-Grillet himself. In his invisibility he has from a sentence to another using a third person lens, focusing his camera, as he did as a filmmaker, to view us close, then distant, making our alienation more profound.

This whimsical God tosses us through time and space at His unseen will. See if that stands up in court. A thirteen year old girl has been murdered on the island. The sailor who reports it was not there. People who we have grown up with do not recognize us, sometimes we, not them. It is difficult to follow conversations, to make ourselves understood. We change according to how we have lived it? We can still sell more watches.

We have not done well. Time has gotten away from us. Like reading a good book. We see the thirteen year old girl, Jacqueline, in the hollow where she can be pushed from the precipitous cliff into the sea. We see or imagine? The memory is not exact. She reminds us of Violet, Violet of her. There are pieces our memory will link. Narratives must be constructed. Robbe- Grillet knows that. Our whimsical God hiding in his craft and invisibility. The more guilty we feel the more important it is for us to not appear guilty, which of course makes us look guiltier.

We must catch the boat. What has happened to our time? Our world of isolated objects, noted? People who would open their doors and remember? Only if there was a narrator, an author for us to discuss this with, to consult. We are left watching the boat disappear. We have missed it. Yet we are not disturbed.

There is no one to go home to. Different mediums handle styles of narrative with more success than others. I think that Robbe-Grillet's style is one such example. I loved the film Last Year at Marienbad , which he wrote the screenplay for. The repetitiveness, the continual focus on the details of the hotel, the surreal dreamlike quality worked perfectly.

A lot of the same stylistic themes are present in The Voyeur but they make me yawn here. I think some of why it works in the film is that the film is visually captivating, if Different mediums handle styles of narrative with more success than others. I think some of why it works in the film is that the film is visually captivating, if the same stylistic themes were done by some grungy NYU film students with a hand-held camera and just kept going back to repetitive street scenes around St.

Marks Place and the Cube the effect would be ruined. Rather than being a beautiful and interesting piece of art it would be boring pretentious shit that they would be lucky if they could get their closest friends to rent from Kim's Video. That's sort of what I think of this book, kind of boring and pretentious shit that is saved by some moments of really good writing but which ultimately fails to make me either a care about the novel, b care to spend anytime wondering 'what it is all about' or c want to even spend much time bashing. In a way this book is the most perfect three star book on my shelves, is so blaaahhhhhhhhh, so mediocre and inoffensive , so blaaahhhhhhhhhhh.

If I were a Seinfeld like comedian I might make a routine out of making fun of this whole French New Novel thing I'm not going to even give it the benefit of making it sound more important by using the French words. I'd say something like, "What's the deal with this New Novel? What's New about it? Let's just say that Modernism did it, so what's so new in the 's about doing it again? What's up with that? Oh, shut the fuck up. This is as revolutionary as the Beats, which is only revolutionary if you've lived your life up until the time the stuff was produced reading nothing but the most drab mainstream shit, lived in a dark closest and had your head shoved so far up your ass that there was no chance of your eyes ever chancing to fall on any L iterature.

Myles Kane , Josh Koury. Everything Coming to Netflix in December December Streaming Originals Guide. Share this Rating Title: Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. Long Shot TV Short The Great Beyond The New Sexual Revolution Edit Cast Credited cast: Josey jumps at the chance because she gets a place to live and a salary which solves all of her current problems.

Their first encounter is a little awkward but from the start, Will senses that Josey is perfect for the job. They enter into an easy friendship and their living situation turns out to be very agreeable for the both of them. But soon Josey and Will are feeling more than friendly and it rattles them. The fears that they each carry deep inside have them doubting anything good or lasting can develop between them.

Can they go back to being just friends and roommates when they return to Ireland? Or will their two weeks of passion end up ruining their perfect living situation at home and ultimately tearing them apart forever? Here are my overall ratings Hero: Jun 13, Sabrina rated it liked it Shelves: The story wasn't a bad one, and I liked the writing, but I think I just didn't understand it.

I didn't connect to either of these character one bit so it made it hard for me to connect to and enjoy the story. They say first impressions matter, and well Josey did not impress me when we first met her. She's 26, in college, and living at home with her parents. And what does this 26 year old woman do after her parents inform her that they lost their money in a bad investment and will have to sell the house, won't be able to continue paying for her school, and suggest she find a place of her own?

Well of course she does what any other self respecting grown woman would do With no regard for her parents who have to sell their home, but only worried about herself. For me this all just turned me off of her character right away. It is very possible to go to school without someone else paying for it. If you want it that bad there are loans, and you could work even though that does make going to school a little harder.

Not impossible though, and I'm over reading about characters acting like brats just because they have to grow up and start paying their own way. Moving on from my rant, I can say Will was an okay character and didn't annoy me as much as Josey did in the beginning. But I never felt like I knew him, and his situation is where most of my confusion came from with this story.

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Being a Rugby player he was in the spotlight, so when it came out that he was a voyeur and liked to watch couples being intimate, it was clearly a bad thing for his career. Especially when you throw in the prostitute that lied and said he hired her. But I didn't get the big deal about voyeurism being his kink. Secondary characters were acting like he had some addiction and had to be watched all the time, enter the heroine as a roommate, and were always trying to make sure he was okay.

I just didn't get it at all and it started to annoy me the more his kink was treated like a bad thing. Sure, it wasn't a great thing for his image but let people have their kink without feeling ashamed! And the fact that I didn't feel like it was treated that way during his own POV's just added to my confusion. So if you made it this far in my rambling review, I'll tell you to still give this book a try if it sounds interesting for you.

I can't say that this was my favorite book these authors have written, but it wasn't bad and I think a lot of people will still find it very interesting. ARC kindly provided in exchange for an honest review. View all 10 comments. May 30, Paige rated it it was amazing Shelves: A completely different kind of story line.

Characters that are totally atypical. Cosway and Reid are wonderful together. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book. A is for Alpha B is for Books. I guess it takes a good writing talent to wrap an unusual trope and to make it to a good story! He was actually celibate for 7 years, if I recall correctly, or at least for 3 years. I had one fear about the heroine Plus clumsiness is also not my favorite female feature.

I need to like the heroine, otherwise I give up on the story. She confirmed she not only was already deflowered, but had a good number of sexual partners and…. Tadadada… had good sex in the past! It was like to be invited to a vegetarian party and then suddenly be served a juicy steak! Liked him a lot. And I learned to like the heroine. I guess you need to be in a right mood for it. View all 35 comments. Apr 21, Wendy'sThoughts rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Cosway, Penny Reid individually and the works of their partnership.

They have brought me many hours of total enjoyment. This series has been a winner for me and so when I started this last entry, I was geared to go Quirky, unedited thoughts and the internal thoughts of wishing one hadn't said what they did Josey's parents have 3. Josey's parents have supported all of the career choices she has pursued.

Josey now feels she has finally figured out what she wants to be, a veterinarian. Unfortunately, her timing sucks because she has just learned her parents need to sell their home and relocate to a smaller apartment. This means they have told Josey it is time she takes responsibility and leave the nest They mean it with love as she is a 26 year old grown woman and maybe they coddled her a little too much.

They also deliver the tough love notice that they will not be able to continue paying for her vet classes.

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Feeling abandoned, Josey doesn't take this well. She immediately throws a few things together and emotionally hurt, marches right out the door. Right to her best friend's home. Eilish opens her door to sees Josey, luggage and her dog in his carrier. Josey promises to only be there for a few nights.

She assures Eilish and Bryan finding a place and job will happen asap. All of this is happening during the erupting scandal William Moore is dealing with. A transplant from America, he had been thought of as "this clean-cut, all-American good-guy" who had become a fan favorite on the winning Irish rugby team. The fans loved him Hell, his teammates loved him, too. He kept his head down and did his job. Never got into anything unseemly Perfect had been outed as someone who like to watch No, not sports or movies on TV No, he liked to watch a couple getting it on in person William does have a reason as to why this type of sexual activity works for him and it isn't involving peeping or anything like that.

It is something which only happens with a couple who wish to be involved in this mutual practice. Now the problem is the tabloids are going to take this and run with it. Will knows this is going to be bad and is thinking the team is going to kick him to the curb But when the meeting takes place, that is not what happens.

First, he really is too valuable to the team. They also really want to help him deal with all of this and stay with the club. Will promises to do whatever they see fit and an idea of how to handle it all comes together. Bryan is in on this meeting and when Will explained he didn't participate in this specific activity when Bryan was his roommate, Bryan felt he was remiss in not knowing about all of this and thought his moving out didn't help Will at all.

Bryan only wants things to go well for Will and mentions he may have an answer to the roommate issue, Josey. It would fix Bryan's need to get his home back and Will would have a roommate to keep him in line. A meeting with Josey and Will is arranged. From this first meeting, even though Josey is awkward and sometimes a bit tongue-tied, Will is taken by her honesty. Josey's blunt speak of what is in her mind unedited clicks with Will.

Even when Bryan checks in thinking maybe this isn't the best for his friend, Will grunts this is fine, he is hiring her. Josey is over the moon; she will have free room and board plus help with her vet classes.

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It also doesn't hurt Will is gorgeous to look at The two of them arrange when she is to move in. There is much happening in this book and it is all for the reader to discover. A plus are the thoughts and then cross outs in emails sent. It is continued with their internal thought processes. The quirk is also in how Will is He has a very strict moral compass and as righteous as it is, it also causes him to not read situations as he should.

The two, when they get together, have passion and care which is sexy and sweet. They have their challenges and once they figure out they need to be brave and give things a go This is the end of this series and I have enjoyed the writing partnership between L. Both are crafty, immensely talented authors with the ability to create tales of people we want to know. Although this entry was not my favorite, the series overall was a huge winner for me. Anytime Cosway and Reid want to venture with another series, sign me up. The Hooker and the Hermit Rugby, 1 https: The Player and the Pixie Rugby, 2 https: The Cad and the Co-Ed Rugby, 3 https: The Varlet and the Voyeur Rugby 4 https: It is a weekend to enjoy- An L.

And A Royal Wedding- I will be up all night! What have you done And then reward us Why did it bother me so much? A knock sounded on my door just before it flew open, and I turned towards it, holding the newly selected purple shirt in one hand. Her eyes focused on my face were wide and worried, and she held two pieces of fabric on hangers in front of her.

But behind the ineffectual wall of skimpy clothes, I could see she was wearing a strapless wine colored bra and matching underwear. I struggled to swallow. All my dresses are florals except these two. Not thinking about much of anything other than wanting to provide comfort, I placed my hands on her shoulders and brought her to my chest, realizing a half-second too late that I was shirtless. Joesy let her hands drop and the length of her virtually bare body connected with mine as she allowed herself to be held. Her skin was smooth, hot everywhere we touched, the tops of her full breasts pressing completely against my chest with every frustrated breath she took.

She shifted, her arms coming around my waist, the delectable friction of her skin sending a shockwave down my spine. Stifling a groan, I struggled to hold on to my original instinctive thread of altruism. I imagined it would probably be appropriate to stroke her soothingly, or rub a circle on her back. But at the same time, it was absolutely not appropriate. The little laugh soon became a giggle and she gave me a squeeze.

Hugging you is like hugging a warm marble statue. Firstly, she smelled good. When I said nothing, her eyes widened. She was right, I was stiff and solid. I had to be. It was my job. Fragments of thoughts, of her softness laying beneath me, of her stretching and arching as I tasted and touched the heat of her skin. Apr 14, Aisling Zena rated it really liked it Shelves: View all 21 comments.

Will is a wonderful hero- he is sweet, loyal and honest. Josey is a great match for him because she is very honest too- plus she is warm and kind. Their relationship is a sweet one and I liked the way it progressed. I would have loved an epilogue that was set out a year or two! View all 9 comments. May 30, Mandy rated it it was amazing Shelves: I am so sad this is the last book in this series - I have loved these characters and this unique series but I honestly think these authors saved the best for last.

He's sensitive, kind, generous, thoughtful, maybe a bit shy and reserved and super swoony. Will isn't your typical romance hero and nothing like I was expecting.

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He is respectful but also has a naughty side and I loved the steamy scenes in this book. The heroine, Josey, reminded me a bit of myself. She's socially a I am so sad this is the last book in this series - I have loved these characters and this unique series but I honestly think these authors saved the best for last. She's socially awkward and sometimes says way more than she needs to like she doesn't have control of her mouth.

I could relate to her and the cringe-worthy things she said at times. Josey isn't a typical beauty, has flaws but is okay just being herself. She was a wonderful heroine. I enjoyed the chemistry and build up in this story - it was romantic and sweet with some super hot sexy times. Overall, I loved this book and hope these authors collaborate again soon!!! To help him, a few other players and some of the bigwigs come up with the idea of William having a "babysitter" so to speak and since Josey needs a place to stay, she seems to be the perfect fit.

Bryan is one of William's best friends and teammates so think of this as a si 3. Bryan is one of William's best friends and teammates so think of this as a six degrees of separation sort of thing and not that Josey's a total stranger. I was happy to finally get William's book although to be honest, I'm not really sure how I feel about his "situation". Not that I felt he was a freak or anything, I guess I'm just not sure it fit him. And I'm not sure if you even want me to tell you about Josey.

I usually always pull for the underdog but with Josey, it was a bit harder. I think because we were constantly told how weird she was, how she talked too much and how strange her features were. Makes it hard to understand how William could grow to love those things. But Josey's incessant talking somehow calms William's mind and quiets his desires, well, at least the desires from his "situation".

Now, he just has to deal with his desires towards Josey. These two are making themselves crazy with their want for each other so they come up with a plan to be friends with benefits but only while the team is in Australia. While this starts off good, the problem is these two have vivid imaginations and they don't communicate so they're always thinking the worst! That leads to some crazy drama but luckily William says something that grabs Josey's attention and she just doesn't let go.

And what else he did wasn't too bad either. Supposedly, this is the end of the series but I was really intrigued with Ophelia and Broderick. I'm really hoping they get a spin off or something.



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View all 19 comments. Jun 03, maggieandteddy rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a book that I've been eagerly waiting to read. I've loved each book in this series. This story starts off with Josey's POV: Josey's been living with her mildly eccentric, intellectual parents while working part time and going to school. She's well into her mid 20s. She's This is a book that I've been eagerly waiting to read. She's been very close to her parents her whole life. Josey's been a little sheltered in the social skills. She mainly hangs out with her parents. As with the other books, this takes place mainly in Dublin.

Josey seeks help from her friend Eilish. Josey moves in with Eilish and Bryan and their young son Patrick. Meanwhile, William Moore, a rugby teammate of Bryan's has been hit with a sex scandal. Will is the least likely of the entire team to get involved with a sex scandal. He's very soft spoken and immediately is ashamed-even though MOST of the rumors are untrue.