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I enjoyed the metaphor of living thousands of lives through reading libraries of books. I also like the purpose of getting the readers to the awakening instead of going through a near-death, life-defining, traumatic experience.
However, The Midnight Library is a cliché that got philosophical too fast. It gave me the vibe of The Alchemist. Nora lives spectrums of lives over a period of 1 minute 27 seconds which echoes decision making in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The book's th ...more
However, The Midnight Library is a cliché that got philosophical too fast. It gave me the vibe of The Alchemist. Nora lives spectrums of lives over a period of 1 minute 27 seconds which echoes decision making in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The book's th ...more
Wow. This was unbelievably good. I recommend this for anyone who has ever had the sads, or felt their life lacked meaning.
This book is like if Mrs Whatsit from A Wrinkle in Time showed up to give you 'live your best life' motivational speeches and take you on a tour of alternate versions of yourself. I was predisposed to like it because it has the word 'library' in the title, but I actually found myself skimming quite a bit. I think the problem is that inserting the main character into multiple possible lives has the effect of making none of them seem real, and thus making me not care very much. I did think the mal
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Kept me wanting more and had a lot of life philosophy and parallel lives
This was great.
I don’t know what to say about this. It tried, it sucked. Good example of a lame character learning a lame lesson.
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