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I can recognize the skill and care that went into crafting six different styles of narrative, but I wasn't drawn in by the stories very much. The Sonmi tale was the most engaging, but it was a bit silly and concluded with something akin to "it was all a dream," which I always find annoying. Don't get me invested in a character and a story, then invalidate the whole story at the end!
The rest of the stories I just couldn't generate much interest in, and the central tale's use of phonetic dialect w ...more
The rest of the stories I just couldn't generate much interest in, and the central tale's use of phonetic dialect w ...more
Clever, a stylistic tour de force, and, contrary to my expectations, great fun to read (except for one of the six parts, which is, quite intentionally and amusingly, very badly written and thus kind of a slog). My one frustration is that the interconnections between the six nested stories are either more superficial than I would have liked, or else (I suspect) too subtle for me to pick up on in a first reading. While it didn't cohere into a unified whole as much as I hoped and expected that it w
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