by Jonathan Evison
Too many characters to follow. I get the gist - a major event near the beginnings of the town, and the later effects - but it is told in the first person by far too many people. Concentrating on a few key people would be better, or even just telling the story from the perspective of the town. Also, ...
For a novel about conquering the frontier, West of Here is refreshingly free of frontier wisdom. In fact it's also wonderfully free of platitudes of any kind, which is incredibly rare in a novel of it's scope. As someone familiar with the area in which the story takes place, I was impressed by how w...
Eh, this just wasn't for me.
Recommended. Many will like this more than me, and I think most will like it, period.Often funny, often moving, often gripping . . . but a little bit marred by a lack of strong momentum. There's much that impresses -- a deliberately-ornate architecture (shifting time periods smoothly, but also jug...
A Yarn-spinner extraordinaire brings us a novel rich in detail and teeming with life. Two parallel stories converge in a small town across a century, populated by characters that are familiar yet unique. Evison has an uncanny ability to bring his characters to life with just a few sentences.
i've been thinking about reading and what makes it special. i love it most of all because of i love words, and taking them in, and how they're arranged because they speak to me very clearly when i take them in through my eyes. i absorb them and they speak through the writer into my own experience, a...
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