I thank NetGalley and Bloomsbury Publishing for providing me an ARC copy of this novel that I freely chose to review. First, in case you have not read the book or anything about it, and wonder what the bardo of the title refers to, it is a Buddhist concept (in Tibetan Buddhism, it seems, and I’ve re...
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, author: Narrators, *too many narrators to list. It would take a hard-hearted person not to be moved by the story of the emotional collapse of Mary Lincoln and the terrible outward grief shown by President Abraham Lincoln when their young, very well loved 11 yea...
So, I was shopping Bloomsbury's annual end of financial year sale the other day, when I was suddenly possessed by someone who reads award winning literature; not wanting to waste the money spent on the book, I wanted to read it before the exorcism, so I cracked it open as soon as it arrived. The ri...
I think I need to read this book. I know the audiobook has won award after award (as has the book), but it never really grabbed me. I couldn't keep my brain attached to the story. I got annoyed with it and kept rewinding, so I'm going to get an actual book copy of this from the library and try again...
Lincoln in the Bardo belongs to that rarest of fantasy sub-genres, novels about the society of ghosts living in a cemetery. Like Peter S. Beagle's 'A Fine and Private Place', the inhabitants of Oak Hill Cemetery are confused about their past and have some secrets. Like Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard B...
Interesting way to look at death. It took me 80 pages to get into the book then I enjoyed it. I also had the wrong Lincoln, which did not help at the beginning. I liked how the historical records were interwoven into the story with the ghosts. I also liked how Vollmer and Blevins wanted what was...
Lincoln in the Bardo is all about structure. It's sold as a novel, but if publishers could make money from the selling of scripts, you know it would've been sold as such. It alternates between snippets of “historical” quotations and dialogue. Some readers will find this clever. Others will find it d...
Most amazing narration with 166 different people, stars, musicians, family. Their unique voices and characters make this a most unusual and fascinating story. I admit to being a bit lost in the beginning till the time line clicked in my head and I understood the voices POV. The characters kept refer...
Ο Saunders, ορμώμενος από την ιστορία περί της επίσκεψης του προέδρου της Αμερικής Abraham Lincoln στην κρύπτη του νεκρού γιου του το 1862 (την οποία αναφέρει εδώ), πλάθει μια πειραματική διήγηση με την εν λόγω ιστορία ως κεντρικό θεματικό πυρήνα αλλά χρησιμοποιώντας και μεταφυσικά στοιχεία για τον ...
Lincoln in the Bardo is a fascinating, unique and mesmerizing reading experience and I have to admit I have never read anything quite like it. Saunders takes the reader on a journey to the bardo, a kind of "in-between-place", where the souls of the dead, who have unfinished business on earth, ling...
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