by Michael Ondaatje
Here is a book for which it is almost impossible to write a plot synopsis. Like many of Ondaatje's other works, this doesn't have narrative that follows conventional literary patterns or rules. Although there is an overall linear aspect to the novel, the general feeling is more of a shifting spiral....
i'm waiting for my laundry to get done, so I guess I'll blab... a tenth of my reviews are blabbing reviews? the itch to write is just something stuck in your fingers? (wah) I won't complain. I spent today searching for rumors of a demonstration and found only a hot pepper festival. I was wearing a s...
It took the whole book before I felt I had anything like a handle on this book. The style does not sit comfortably. I couldn't grip or connect to the characters - I never did since the last quarter of the book is about different characters. As soon as I felt the book was getting somewhere, it change...
wtf is up with the amnesia and the ending?
wtf is up with the amnesia and the ending?
I loved this book. The language and description was so beautiful. The two story arcs seemed kind of incongruous at times, but they definitely paralleled each other. It is a book to be read not for the plot but the language. The only other book by Ondaatje I've read is The English Patient. I have to ...
Brilliant! As one of the reviewers said: Ondaatje is peerless in his writing. I think though that I will have to read it again to take it all in.
Yes, I definitely liked it. I loved the suberb characterisation. I fell in love with the gypsie people. I liked how often both the reader and the characters themselves can/do see their lives from a distance. Is this nearer or further from the truth?! Quotes from other authors are suberbly thrown in....
There are definitely some questionable moves in terms of plot here, or in terms of abandoning the plot, or, actually, what's the plot. Occasionally grandiose. But at the same time, skillful, true and beautiful. Proving, I can only suppose, that the plot doesn't matter as much as what life means.
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