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Bezig met laden... The House of Discarded Dreams (2010)door Ekaterina Sedia
I Could Live There (158) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 384 ( ) I expected to like this far more than I did. Maybe my expectations made me like it a little less? Not sure. I preferred both 'Alchemy of Stone' and 'Secret History of Moscow.' In 'House of Discarded Dreams,' teenager Vimbai is seeking her independence (and, especially, some distance from her overbearing mother's socio-political opinions). She moves into her own place for the first time, becoming roommates with another young woman and her strange roommate - a guy whose 'hair' is actually a bizarre pocket dimension. it only gets stranger from there, as soon their dilapidated beachside house is adrift on the waves, seemingly growing endless rooms - and the book is spewing a steady stream of surreal, unfocused philosophy. There were aspects to the book I liked very much - it did accurately capture the inchoate but allusive feeling of dreaming - and I could empathize with Vimbai and her conflicted feeling about identity/growing up. But I still felt the book was missing something in its meanderings. This is a difficult one to rate. I liked the ideas, and the imagination and the plot and several of the characters. But it's written third person from the point of view of a single character, and the style it was written in I found incredibly distancing, which made it very hard to get involved in the story. It all ended up being more of an exercise in intellectual curiosity than an involving book. I really just wish Sedia could have written this in a more intimate style. If I'd been able to reach Vimbai, I'd have been able to connect to the story... and it would have been an absolutely fascinating read. Instead, it was just a potentially interesting story seen through layers of glass. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into adilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommateshas a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living inthe telephone wir Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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