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The technical aspects of this book were good for me. Strong distinct voices for the characters in periods of time, a strong uniting huge arc of story, beautiful prose. BUT, it took me weeks to read this book and I usually plow through a book in a couple of days. It was agonizingly slow at times. Like running through peanut butter. I also felt that though the characters had strong unique voices, they had little depth and I really had trouble caring about what happened to them. Debated rating it a
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Nov 09, 2010
Esther
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really liked it
Shelves:
fantasy,
author-male,
england,
__given-away,
europe,
zz-2015,
zz-2015-from-my-own-shelves,
world
This book received 4 stars from me mainly because I enjoyed Mitchell’s writing. If the book had been all about Sonmi-451 it would have been 5 stars but the other narratives I found a bemusing mixture of amusing and annoying.
In addition the book didn’t really hold together as a single entity and felt more like a series of short stories. As a story it was all middle, no beginning or end. I could appreciate what the author was trying to do but it didn’t really appeal to me.
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In addition the book didn’t really hold together as a single entity and felt more like a series of short stories. As a story it was all middle, no beginning or end. I could appreciate what the author was trying to do but it didn’t really appeal to me.
If you have the patience ...more
3.5 really. Upped to 4 because I definitely want to reread this someday to get a better idea of all the connections.
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