Snow in Reading with Style

Apr 24, 2009 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books

This book came to my attention nearly 4 years ago, soon after I became a member of Goodreads. So, when it came up as an option for this quarter's challenge, I happily put it on my list. I was too stubborn to put it down.

The prose is pedestrian and uninteresting, occasionally boring. There is no real character development. The women are beautiful (or fat), and one of the important, but minor, characters has blue eyes. That doesn't count as character development.

My biggest objection, however, is ...more

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Sep 13, 2016 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2016-read, passport, 1001, rws-2016-fall

I would never have made it through this book in print. It's too plodding; too layered; too long. The structure of the book distances the reader from the action. But John Lee nailed it in the audio version. The book translates surprisingly well to audio format because the story is relayed by a narrator. A sometimes whiny, sometimes arrogant, sometimes insecure narrator. Telling the story of a poet who is much like himself, with whom the narrator has developed some fascination and desire to uncove ...more

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Apr 28, 2022 Bucket rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-read-all-editions, communication, literary, philosophy, religion, culture, world-lit, life-and-death, reviewed, love

The simplest reading of Snow is that it's a political thriller, but it's so expansive in its scope and so thought-provoking that I barely even noticed. Good thing - I'm not into political thrillers. Sometimes humorous, more often full of tension, but most often quiet, calm and cold, like the endless blanket of snow that falls throughout the novel.

The characters are all a bit of a mystery, and purposefully so. We don't see inside their shells, and everyone is hiding something. They are each snowf ...more

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