If you were making a documentary about Arcadia, where would you travel to? If you were looking for happiness, how would you start? The Age of Magic follows a film crew seeking to document just this. But along their journey they must each confront their own demons as well as a nightmare that they’ve ...
I think it took one, possibly two of the first sentences to realize how profoundly brilliant his writing is. By page twenty or thirty, I was...what, jealous?, unwilling to hear so much magic without being sold anything? At any rate, I´m stuck in place, fully aware I am missing an astonishing image o...
Giving up on this one for now. I don't know if I'm too dumb or what, but I can't seem to find a plot in here, and I don't want to waste more time forcing myself to trudge through one more page of this. Too bad, because the blurb was interesting. Misleadingly so, but interesting.
After nearly three years of living next-door to a library, it was about time I actually joined; I have this renewed fervour for reading all of a sudden. So, earlier this week when I found myself working from home to avoid an audit in the office I popped along with identification and asked to join up...
Towards the end of the book, in Chapter 12 of Book 7, the author states quite clearly what seems to be his intended message:The spirit-child is an unwilling adventurer into chaos and sunlight, into the dreams of the living and the dead. Things that are not ready, not willing to be borne or to becom...
I'm not a fan of magical realism (why is it so much more magical than any other kind of prose?) but Ben Okri's fable is so rich and cheerful, it's impossible for even a cold hearted cynic like me not to love it. It's the story of a child who decides not to die, but to stay in the world of humans and...
This book almost broke me and ate me. I went to bed after reading the first twenty pages of it and I dreamt about chasing an antelope with a broken horn which jumped out the window. I, in turn, was being chased by a wild boar covered in blood which spoke in a human voice. There was also a flying car...
In Arcadia is more of a meditation on happiness than a novel. I found myself disliking it, which is a shame, because it came highly recommended. I didn't dislike it because I thought it pretentious - I didn't as such; I believe every word was sincerely meant and mostly intended to be descriptive and...
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