I love Cloud Cuckoo Land by Doerr, in par with his All the Light We Cannot See if not better! As much as I love and admire Doerr's books, the only criticisms I have for him (if I dare hahaha) are: 1) his prose is too beautiful, too polished --> a little bit overwritten imo. 2) I agree with George (was it George who wrote the critique or …
I love Cloud Cuckoo Land by Doerr, in par with his All the Light We Cannot See if not better! As much as I love and admire Doerr's books, the only criticisms I have for him (if I dare hahaha) are: 1) his prose is too beautiful, too polished --> a little bit overwritten imo. 2) I agree with George (was it George who wrote the critique or someone else?) about the little caricature nature of the bad guy in All the Light We Cannot See --> though villains are villains, they don't see themselves as bad guys doing bad things but ones that are simply doing the necessary things for themselves
The Scecret Scripture sounds interesting! I will put it on my list, thank you for the recommendation. And I love the secret manuscript idea! In fact, there are two books I've read this year that I could recall that were framed as someone writing letters and confession to recount the bulk of the (flashback) stories.
I’ve read two of Sebastian Barry books and am looking forward to the others — all about members of the same family but there’s no need to know the backstories to be fully present on the current page. Though I might, in the end, re-read them all with, I suppose, greater knowledge. It’s like how you get to know more and more about everything (people, world) as time goes by. The unfolding of a map, just that. The routes are held by it, but you don’t have to trace them exactly.
I love Cloud Cuckoo Land by Doerr, in par with his All the Light We Cannot See if not better! As much as I love and admire Doerr's books, the only criticisms I have for him (if I dare hahaha) are: 1) his prose is too beautiful, too polished --> a little bit overwritten imo. 2) I agree with George (was it George who wrote the critique or someone else?) about the little caricature nature of the bad guy in All the Light We Cannot See --> though villains are villains, they don't see themselves as bad guys doing bad things but ones that are simply doing the necessary things for themselves
The Scecret Scripture sounds interesting! I will put it on my list, thank you for the recommendation. And I love the secret manuscript idea! In fact, there are two books I've read this year that I could recall that were framed as someone writing letters and confession to recount the bulk of the (flashback) stories.
Letters: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Confession: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
I’ve read two of Sebastian Barry books and am looking forward to the others — all about members of the same family but there’s no need to know the backstories to be fully present on the current page. Though I might, in the end, re-read them all with, I suppose, greater knowledge. It’s like how you get to know more and more about everything (people, world) as time goes by. The unfolding of a map, just that. The routes are held by it, but you don’t have to trace them exactly.