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If you want to get a glimpse of what was the Y2K Bug craze in 1999 Ullman’s chapter on it is a must. Millenniums may ask: “What was the Y2K bug?” Well, as one who was actively working in IT at the time, it basically was the number of seriously heavyweight IT-reliant- and IT-provider-based organiza...
And immediately a chasm opened between the patient's last words and those still to come. Was the woman named Michal Gerson truly her mother? What was my evidence? Initials. A date. Historical patterns. Almost nothing. The laughing voice of Mrs. Knobloch mocked me: Who am I to tell you what to believ...
I just couldn't get into it. The narrator was just too boring and creepy.
This book got a lot of good reviews but I'm afraid I just didn't like it at all. I found the narrative device to be way too contrived. I found the narrator to be so creepy as to be repulsive to me. Each of the main characters was filled with so much self-loathing that I could not muster up any de...
Ellen Ullman's "By Blood" is a slow starter, and I must confess that I almost abandoned the book. However, once it got going, the book had me enthralled.The first-person narrator, an unnamed male professor, is under investigation at his university during the early 1970s. He rents an office in whic...
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