I liked and disliked different aspects of this book. This is a detective noir-type story, set in an alternate version of Alaska where most of the Jews were resettled after World War II and have built a Yiddish community. Despite the alternate history setting, this doesn’t have any science fiction ...
I’ll admit that I more or less gave up on reading this book on page twenty-six, when I was completely overwhelmed by the prospect of sitting through hours and hours and almost four hundred more pages of what I had read so far. So I started skimming, reading a sentence or two in this paragraph, then ...
It is not great, but it is not bad. Only 20% in and we already got a feel on the Jewish department feel about their "reconstruction". 3 and a half stars working its way up. So far, 40% of the book is finished and yet we are not getting closer to the killer. We found out the victim was the so...
in the mad, slipstream flow of words that this 'review' will consist of, one might suppose the only animating concept or ideology is that of volume above all. "quantity has its own quality," said, apocryphally, Mao, leading to such military humor as "how many Chinese hordes came over the ridgeline t...
"Nobody has that much weight," Landsman says. "Not even the Verbover rebbe." Berko ducks his head and gives his shoulders a half-shrug, as if he doesn't want to say anything more lest terrible forces be unleashed, scourges and plagues and holy tornadoes. "Just because you don't believe in miracl...
I read and loved [b:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay|3985|The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay|Michael Chabon|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355094690s/3985.jpg|2693329]. It broke my heart, which can be a good thing in a book. The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a quite diffe...
I thought there was some wonderful elements but the writing was just so over blown. I feel his writing overshadowed his characters and is a shame because he had some wonderful characters in there.
Could not finish the audiobook. The overly descriptive writing style does not lend well to an audiobook. The excessive descriptions become a distraction and bothersome, hence, I did not finish this one.
Meh. Standard elliptical detective fiction wherein opening crime may or may not be resolved, and during the course of investigation into same, other crimes, both on investigator's micronarrative as well as setting macronarrative, come to some sort of resolution. Novelty is the layers of jewish mys...
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