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More like 3.5/ rounding down instead of up though. I listened to this on audio which I don't think was ideal for this book. Since there are so many different narrators, I wish I had a hard copy so I could look back when I got confused as to how some of the characters were related. And the "Power Point slide section" was the low point for me. Sure it was gimmicky, but having a kid as the narrator seemed out of place in this tale (and the thing about measuring pauses in music - not a fan of this).
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Sigh.
Double sigh.
Egan did some brilliant things with this book but my brain did not like it. At all.
Double sigh.
Egan did some brilliant things with this book but my brain did not like it. At all.
I don't know why I was sure I had already read this book, until I picked it up and instead it was untouched. Having said that I liked it up to a certain point, in some ways very innovative (such as the chapter written as powerpoint slides) for others it seemed unnecessarily circumvolved and aimed at creating some kind of shock. Certainly not a book that one can read without paying attention.
Io non sono sicura del perché ero certa di aver giá letto questo libro, fino a che non l'ho preso in mano ...more
Io non sono sicura del perché ero certa di aver giá letto questo libro, fino a che non l'ho preso in mano ...more
Wow, what an interesting read! Egan tricks readers into thinking this is a novel, but it is more of a collection of related short stories. It illuminates living in our technology age, but also highlights the 6 degrees of separation where everyone somehow has a connection to everyone else. The time settings vary from past, present and future for each of the characters. I really enjoyed her style of writing and storytelling, which is very honest. Positive and negative aspects of each characters li
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Jun 24, 2011
Karen Michele Burns
rated it
it was amazing
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Jun 27, 2011
Foxy Grandma
marked it as to-read
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