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To Say Nothing of the Dog is both silly and sophisticated, complex and light. It’s the ideal blend of history, romance, time travel, and comedy. Willis’ unique book has quickly earned a spot on my favorite books list.
There are so many ways in which this novel could have gone horribly wrong. Instead, Willis expertly juggles all of the various threads and elements with perfect precision. She makes even the complex time travel coherent and easily understood. Her writing and dialogue are engaging an ...more
There are so many ways in which this novel could have gone horribly wrong. Instead, Willis expertly juggles all of the various threads and elements with perfect precision. She makes even the complex time travel coherent and easily understood. Her writing and dialogue are engaging an ...more
A mind-melting, cause-and-effect reversing, fantastic time-travel story told as a genteel Victorian mystery / farce; or maybe the other way around. A bibliophile's delight, with shout-outs to Dorothy L. Sayers and Jerome K. Jerome and sly winks to many more, all wrapped up in an insane plot that piles clues on top of crazy clues until the last piece snaps into place and the whole thing pops into perfect focus.[return][return]Pretty much perfect.
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This is my first Connie Willis novel. I picked it up based on a recommendation from a panel talking about either time travel or unreliable narrators- I can't quite recall which. In any case, I really, really enjoyed it. Some things are terribly dated--it's almost twenty years old, after all--but it was so. Damn. Funny. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a book. The plot is incredibly intricate, often confusing, and sometimes overwhelming, but the humor carried me through. And it
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This book is basically perfect. Comic sci-fi with a touch of romance? Why isn't every book I read like that?
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I started reading this for a bookclub months ago. I didn't manage to finish it in time for our meeting, but I kept at it, a little bit at a time. It took me forever to finish, I just couldn't get into it for the longest time. The story was interesting enough, but there was so much added back and forth and background and bits and pieces that if was sometimes like wading through a flood of words to get anywhere.
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