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I hadn't noticed this before, but the rhythm of those sentences if very meditative. They remind me of Eliot's The Four Quartets. Perhaps I was simply practicing my deep breathing and wandered too far off the path i had chosen.
I remember hunting out Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge after the song "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Brilliant review, Vit. :):)
It sounds beautiful! Thank you for the review. This one goes on my, already way too big, TBR pile. 😉
Love this book, so imaginative and unique!
A deceptively straightforward book compared with If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, but so beautiful and profound, as you demonstrate.
Thank you, Cecily, it's a book of rare depth.
what do you think the Inferno is at the end of the book?
I am reading this now. It is my second novel by this author. This one felt like a big fluffy cloud of imagination, whereas If on a winter’s night stressful because of the urgency of the characters to find the endings to the books or whatever. This book just invited you to sit and open your imagination. It was fun.
The idea that cities are made of desires and fears, and that everything conceals something else, that's a line that stays with you long after you've closed the book. And the way you opened with Coleridge, that pleasure-dome built in pure imagination, before diving into Calvino's invisible cities, there's something about connecting those two that most readers wouldn't think to do.
If you're ever looking for your next read, I'd love to send you a copy of The Architect of Nowhere.
'This book is beautiful and inspirational and one of the top five books I've ever read.' — Marc DeVincent
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I hadn't noticed this before, but the rhythm of those sentences if very meditative. They remind me of Eliot's The Four Quartets. Perhaps I was simply practicing my deep breathing and wandered too far off the path i had chosen.
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I remember hunting out Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge after the song "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Brilliant review, Vit. :):)
It sounds beautiful! Thank you for the review. This one goes on my, already way too big, TBR pile. 😉
Love this book, so imaginative and unique!
A deceptively straightforward book compared with If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, but so beautiful and profound, as you demonstrate.
Thank you, Cecily, it's a book of rare depth.
what do you think the Inferno is at the end of the book?
I am reading this now. It is my second novel by this author. This one felt like a big fluffy cloud of imagination, whereas If on a winter’s night stressful because of the urgency of the characters to find the endings to the books or whatever. This book just invited you to sit and open your imagination. It was fun.
The idea that cities are made of desires and fears, and that everything conceals something else, that's a line that stays with you long after you've closed the book. And the way you opened with Coleridge, that pleasure-dome built in pure imagination, before diving into Calvino's invisible cities, there's something about connecting those two that most readers wouldn't think to do. If you're ever looking for your next read, I'd love to send you a copy of The Architect of Nowhere.
'This book is beautiful and inspirational and one of the top five books I've ever read.' — Marc DeVincent
