If you want to thank god for the books you read, read this book. The books I read stay where they are, have beginnings, endings, and morals. I get closure and satisfaction. This book was blue balls to the max.I don't know what to say about it, but it was amazing. Read it.
If on a winter's nighta traveller picks this book,prepare for a bit of sleight,for this book's a hook.A series of just starts,and no ends in sight,Divid'd in many parts,But no parts-whole, not quite.This, advent'rous readeris a book compendium,of oulipo muse, ('ll need her)and threatens of novels to...
I have a feeling this is a book that will grow on my in due time. I did like some of the stories from it but as a whole it just didn't live up to my expectations. I have seen all the 5-star reviews, that is was on the 1001 books list, friends talked about it like some amazing experience, but it actu...
You are about to read the review of On a Winter's Night A Traveller by Jonathan Terrington. You look at the review but it is not what you expect. You then think some deep thoughts about the world, are constantly addressed as You and wonder what on earth just happened....This is the response I had to...
This is almost more of a philosophical treatise on reading and writing than it is a novel. The second person narrative is punctuated by fragments (beginnings) of books that the protagonist (you) read but for one reason or another, despite your frustrations, are perpetually unable to complete. At fir...
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Translator note: In chapter eight the passage from 'Crime and Punishment' is quoted in the beloved translation of Constance Garnett.Dedication: for Danielle PonchiroliOpening: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, 'If on a Winter's N...
I say this is what happened: Italo Calvino was suffering from a writer's block. He would start a novel, get it to its first curve and abandond it before the resolution. A few months later he would start another with a similar result. Finally, his publishers got impatient because it had been years si...
I arrived at the library with my two books in hand. As I plunked them down on the check-in counter, a thin matronly woman approached."Would you like to check these books in?""Yes I would but I would also like to...""Oh, I see you read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.""Yes I did. H...
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