Just a wonderful, wonderful book about a wonderfully strange place filled with wonderfully strange people. After finishing it, I had to give it to my brother-in-law, a book geek, whom I just knew would love it. And he did.You can think of reading the right books at the right time in your life. We...
Some books you love because the worldbuilding is amazing, some because the story is compelling or the characters are riveting, and some because the language itself is so beautiful or intricate. This book is all of that.
A story that will engage you, make you mad, make you think. An alternate world novel where Israel didn't survive and the Diaspora settled in Sitka, Alaska. Memorable characters, weird situations, and maybe even the Messiah. Meyer Landsman and his buddy, Berko, are very memorable characters. I loved ...
I like the noir/detective aspect of this novel, but at times I felt that Chabon was reaching too far to get his point across. Other times it felt as though the story wasn't really moving forward but for the sake of introducing more character elements.
Then again. Again. Again. I wake up this morning and see that even now, despite everything, not one vote for this review.Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. What the fucking hell do I have to do to get a vote for this review. Just one fucking vote, so I can put the fucking thing to bed. Obviously I need a new p...
Like a fellow reviewer, I'm not sure why this book won a Hugo. It's not a bad book; I'm just not sure I would classify it as SF. The Yiddish Policeman's Union is the first book by Chabon that I have read. I resisted reading it because everyone was raving about Chabon, so of course, it couldn't be...
So I definitely didn't realize how much of an 'alternate history' was created in this book until I was finished. If I had, then I probably would've understood it A LOT more earlier on as well as enjoyed it more. Overall, not a bad book by any means, but I think I hyped it up too much in my head.
I like everything about Michael Chabon, except his writing. I love his taste in genre writers, I love it that a supposed literary writer works in genres. I know most of the civilized reading world thinks he's God-like, but for me, it's an effort to drag my eyes from one word to the next. The Fl...
I really wanted to like this book. I'd heard good things about it from more than one person.One of my problems was the culture clash. I may have been able to deal with it better if I'd realized earlier on rather than halfway through that there actually was a glossary, it was just located after the...
I liked it even better than the AmazingAdventures of Kavalier & Clay.Alternate history meets noir mystery - but Chabon's writing definitelytranscends the conventions of any genre. He intentionally takes the stocknoir character of the beaten-down, alcoholic policeman - and makes him nota stock charac...
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