that image is beautiful. you've seen man on a wire, right?
i started this book forever ago and completely forgot that i hadn't finished it until i read this (which is not rare for me in my gradschool life, sadly). but i had the exact same ambivalence about it. i was loving it at first, and then i was "eh." but it was that paragraph that was a whole list of "death by x, death by y, death by z. . . " that irritated me to the point of not wanting to finish (though i did read a bit further). it felt like an exercise. and not an interesting one. and then the whole book sort of felt that way. the formula of taking all these seemingly unconnected and supposedly irresolvable different characters and showing how all their lives are interconnected is actually an interesting project, and one that makes a lot of sense in light of the 9/11 implications. but it's been done better before. this one didn't seem to have anything particularly new to it. nor did i feel invested in the characters, which didn't help.
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Date: 2010-08-04 05:49 pm (UTC)i started this book forever ago and completely forgot that i hadn't finished it until i read this (which is not rare for me in my gradschool life, sadly). but i had the exact same ambivalence about it. i was loving it at first, and then i was "eh." but it was that paragraph that was a whole list of "death by x, death by y, death by z. . . " that irritated me to the point of not wanting to finish (though i did read a bit further). it felt like an exercise. and not an interesting one. and then the whole book sort of felt that way. the formula of taking all these seemingly unconnected and supposedly irresolvable different characters and showing how all their lives are interconnected is actually an interesting project, and one that makes a lot of sense in light of the 9/11 implications. but it's been done better before. this one didn't seem to have anything particularly new to it. nor did i feel invested in the characters, which didn't help.