this probably deserves 4 stars just for the writing. it's really beautifully written. the story, for me, is also lovely, but i wish some of the many holes were filled in. this is a book that, to me, you read not for the story but for the writing. and it's worth it."What was the marsh like, waiti...
I liked the simple narrative of the father and the son. I did not like the beautiful - but completely boring - descriptions of the sky and the forest and the clocks and so on. I couldn't really focus as I read this novel because parts of it were so dull. Overall, it was okay.
At some point, I will learn to stop scouring the Pulitzer finalists lists for books to read, because it always ends up exactly the same way. Always.::: Plot :::The, er, plot of Paul Harding's Tinkers is fairly simple, and easily spoiled. A man, George Crosby, who fixed clocks, is dying. On his death...
It's beautifully written. The language is lovely. It's the kind of book I'd love to love. But it's hard to follow (maybe reading it all in one sitting would help) and a bit odd. It seems more like a piece of artwork to be appreciated than a book to inhabit and chew on.
What a strange little book. The main character, George, lays dying and has hallucinations. He dreams of his father, a man he wishes he had known better. He relives most of his life through these random memories and invites the reader in, to travel with him via these revelations. The author uses lang...
Having swept up numerous accolades and a Pulitzer, I can only guess that the reason I was lukewarm on this book is that it was too literary for me. The writing was exquisite, but the story left me wanting [full review]
George Crosby remembered things as he died, but in an order he could not control. To look at his life, to take the stock he always imagined a man would at his end, was to witness a shifting mass, the tiles of a mosaic, spinning, swirling, reportraying, always in recognizable swaths of colors, famili...
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