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I'm not sure that I can review this. Honestly.
I'm overwhelmed with the sheer sprawling immensity and lack of cohesion except for just a few special points... the big ones happening to be light and light's refraction, and anarchism.
SAY WHAT?
Yeah. That's kinda my view, too. It's set up with seemingly hundreds of little scenes and build-ups starting all the way back to Chicago's World's Fair and ending after WWI and never staying in any place for very long. Want to globe-trot around the world? Hop ...more
I'm overwhelmed with the sheer sprawling immensity and lack of cohesion except for just a few special points... the big ones happening to be light and light's refraction, and anarchism.
SAY WHAT?
Yeah. That's kinda my view, too. It's set up with seemingly hundreds of little scenes and build-ups starting all the way back to Chicago's World's Fair and ending after WWI and never staying in any place for very long. Want to globe-trot around the world? Hop ...more
I could never do this book justice so I'll just say it's brilliant!
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I'm finally finished with this beast! This probably deserves to be a 5 star book, but I'm docking a star just because, unfortunately, I did find my attention wandering and then finding myself lost more than a handful of times. This probably had to do with a combination of not only the complexity of the plot and the number of characters to keep track of, but also because I listened to the audio book. The first ~170 pages and the characters who were introduced there are stuck much more clearly in
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Jan 29, 2014
Robyn
marked it as to-read
May 16, 2015
Gleamhound
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Jul 31, 2017
Kathy
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Sep 06, 2020
Carrie
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Dec 04, 2024
Alfred
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