will's review of Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
by Michael Chabon
I love Michael Chabon. He makes me feel cleverer just from reading his books. It is as if the words seep off the pages, up your fingers and into the brain, as well as getting there via the eyes. In this case you also get to hear the words. Nope, this wasn't the audio version of the book, but it became the audio version.
You know that moment when you arrive at the end of a sentence and you can't remember where it started and you have to go back to the beginning and it read it all again but sometimes that doesn't work so that you are left with reading the thing out loud. word. by single. word. Don't panic if it happens to you, it happens to everyone. It is an accepted learning technique (the concrete stage as opposed to the iconic and symbolic stage).
Theproblem wonderful thing with this book is that it is full of sentences that need to read out loud to grasp their full meaning. Time and time again I had to return to the start of a sentence, mainly because I got l...more
You know that moment when you arrive at the end of a sentence and you can't remember where it started and you have to go back to the beginning and it read it all again but sometimes that doesn't work so that you are left with reading the thing out loud. word. by single. word. Don't panic if it happens to you, it happens to everyone. It is an accepted learning technique (the concrete stage as opposed to the iconic and symbolic stage).
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