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Another take on Parallel Stories that, like my own, acknowledges the book’s accomplishments while also being clear that the book has deficiencies, some rather serious ones.
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Thank you Scott, for all of your hard work and consideration. You have saved me a lot of time, better spent with authors I find more interesting and valuable. I got so . . . frustrated by Nadas’s inward gazing while reading A Book of Memories that I left it at a pub intentionally–after only one pint. It failed the Finegan’s Wake test–the book became an entropic energy sucking deficit, and I found I wasn’t getting enough out of it for the effort I had to offer. Happpier rereading Toussaint’s “trilogy” about Marie, as well as Krasznahorkai–wow, he’s amazing.
I second what Stephen says. You might have saved me a month in reading. It’s too bad, because I do want to get into Nadas, but this is just too long for something that is apparently very flawed.
I wandered into my local book store (City Lights in San Francisco) the day this was released and there sat five copies of this book (making quite a pile). I’d never heard of the author, but decided to buy it. As I’ve said a couple of other times on this blog, I loved the book from the very first page. As a retired person who is now able to spend much of my life reading, I am always after the intense experience of reading a book that is perfect, that you feel says everything perfectly. For me, this book comes very, very close to that ideal. As lascosas I wrote a review of this book on Amazon yesterday.
I understand why many people might not like this book, but you can download the first chapter from Amazon for free and give it a try.