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David Bajo

Teoksen The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel tekijä

3 teosta 210 jäsentä 13 arvostelua

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Sisältää nimen: David Bajo

Tekijän teokset

Panopticon (2010) 36 kappaletta
Mercy 6 (2014) 11 kappaletta

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Well-written prose, but ... seems like the author is focused a lot on sex, and it gets very confusing which woman the main character is with, it all blurs together. Which is maybe what the author intended, but I just wasn't getting enough out of it to stick with it. Does remind me of Kundera, and also Richard Powers.
 
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MarkLacy | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 29, 2022 |
On the California/Mexico border a newspaper is closing shop and three of their top reporters are given different assignments, that end up having eerie similarities. One involves a mysterious motel and a missing woman. This novel has a dream-like quality to it, involving a surveillance-minded society, where cameras document everything. There is also a connection to the “feminicide" in Ciudad, Juarez where scores of women have been murdered over the past 25-plus years. I should have loved this book. It's premise and style fit me perfectly but the trippy and unfocused, narrative kept me from fully locking in. It just missed the “mark”.… (lisätietoja)
 
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msf59 | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 31, 2020 |
Bajo's novel is about mathematics, bookbinding, running, reading and lovemaking in a Borgesian, Cervantesian labryinth. It teases and intrigues, leading the reader on winding pathways of relationships with sensuous prose. Not for those who like their novels rational and straightfoward. I found it fascinating and seductive.
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janeajones | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 12, 2015 |
Overall, this just wasn't my type of book. As such, I don't have much to say on it other than I found the story to be too hard to follow and the writing style not engaging. I'm sure others might find the story interesting, but I just couldn't get into it.
 
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eheinlen | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 27, 2012 |

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