If I'd looked through all the blurbs, I would have seen one from an author I avoid, and I would probably have avoided this book--at least, I would have gone in with lower expectations. This book is cluttered, busy, and borderline disjointed; the afterword/acknowledgments mention there was a short story first, and this definitely reads like a 500-page novel with a short story entombed within it. The setting sits in an uncanny valley, real enough to sorta fit the real world but fantastic enough (in a vaguely steampunkish sense) to seem almost otherworldly; the hints of the real world bleeding into the setting do not really help. There are characters I found myself rooting for, but they're really not the mains--that's probably not a great sign.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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