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by Kevin Brockmeier

Austen to Zafón rated it

16 years ago

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I liked this book very much until about 3/4 of the way into it, when I began to get bored. His prose is good and the dialogue is too. The premise is very interesting (the dead exist in their own world as long as someone on earth still remembers them), but the story went on too long for me. I could s...

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mkunruh rated it

17 years ago

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I really wish I could give .5 stars, because I'd like to give this book 3.5 stars. One of my favorite reads in 2007. A lovely idea, well executed. I always looked forward to picking it up.

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cindywho rated it

17 years ago

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This is a tough one to listen to - at night - in the winter. For a post-apocalyptic novel, this has to be one of the most depressing ones I've encountered, picking over the memories of the dead and the living in detail, along with Laura's excruciating Antarctic journey. I managed to stick with it,...

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the terror of whatever rated it

18 years ago

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Sets up an interesting premise, but when a book is this depressing, it also has to be redemptive or instructive in some way, and this totally was not. The main character wasn't very interesting, aside from her circumstance. The author spends time on things that aren't that engaging while completely ...

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Intensely Focused rated it

18 years ago

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I wanted to read this book ever since The Seattle Times reviewed [http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=deadhistory19&date=20060317&query=%22a+brief+history+of+the+dead%22] it. I think the review set my expectations too high.The premise is certainly int...

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