[ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:03:44 +1000
MMMM! I might abandon but.
Sounds a bit like Hilary Mantel's fixation on parallel universes - Terry
Pratchett somehow handles them convincingly! - and also a novel I read a
couple of years ago called "Deja Vue" where the book went so far to a
catastrophe, then back to a major turning-point and reconstructed itself,
giving hope and a potentially happier ending.
I suspect sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't.
Good luck.
Elaine
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On Behalf Of Trish Talbot
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013 8:54 AM
To: Ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] Kate Atkinson
I have started reading Kate Atkinson's latest, I think it's called "LIfe
After Life", and I'm confused. Artisticly, it is a very clever concept -
the main character is born, dies at birth, then there is a time switch, the
birth happens again and she is saved in the nick of time. All through the
book (Or as far as I've got, anyway) she is faced with death, then there is
a time switch and she lives, but each time, the story goes back to just
after her birth. With so many adaptations to the story, and the need to
continually re-programme your idea of what happened and to whom, it all
becomes extremely complicated. I'm now finding myself torn in two - the
intellectual (If so it may be called) half of me feels I should persevere
with the book, admiring the author's ability to construct such a clever
book. The peasant reader in me, who loves reading in order to sit back and
enjoy a good story feels that I should forget the clever concept and abandon
the book. I can't decide. It's interesting, but ... maybe I need to read
something else to escape and just keep coming back to it now and again.
Hmmm!
Trish.
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