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Bezig met laden... theMystery.docdoor Matthew McIntosh
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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. Check out my review in this edition of Rain Taxi Review of Books: Volume 23, Number 2, Summer 2018 (#90). ( ) I considered affording this bulk of paper two stars but couldn't merit the charity. I did not care for this. The size of it wasn't a factor. Nor were the hundreds of photographs and near empty pages. If we pause and say that the book was instead an installation reflecting our fragmented reality, our need to occupy virtual worlds and conduct our affairs through small screens--then this is still a failure. The language is deplorable. The novel meditates on mortality but uses the plotlines of an after school special. Things are bad when one skips 400 pages ahead to read fifty pages with the idea that if captivated one could circle back. Within my copy I found a letter from the publisher to Julie Orringer. I feel that the letter is almost an integral part of the experience. theMystery.doc🍒🍒🍒 By Matthew McIntosh 2017 Grove Press This epic 1600 page book is part memoir, part love story, part mystery and very inventive, original and funny. The story of a man who wakes up one morning with no memory of who he is, of his life, or of his wife ("or that's who she says she is")-his only clue is a single document on his computer that is called theMystery.doc - the rest is blank. This book is how he fills it in.... I loved the originality and the story within a story. If your looking for an imaginative book- this is one you may enjoy. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, theMystery.doc follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write his second book, a national epic he hopes will last forever, and as he searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, revealing the interconnectedness of all our lives. Pop-up ads, internet search results, spam, lines of code, frames of film and television mix with canonical works of literature, alchemical manuscripts, transcripts of personal conversations, and the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is, a blank document called themystery.doc newly appeared on his computer. Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir, theMystery.doc is about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything is in danger of slipping away. Love, loss, birth, death, technology, terrorism and the American Dream come together to form a great symphonic work that dazzles in both its structure and in its deep emotional resonance. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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