[ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:12:48 +0100
I've tried a couple of Kate Atkinson's books, one from the series and a stand
alone and I really didn't like either of them. I hope it picks up for you.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:54 PM
To: "Ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <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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