[ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:53:33 +1000
I haven't read this; adored the first Jackson Brody and also "Behind the
Scenes at the Museum" but this sounds like something I could get lost in;
intriguing and absorbing.
Elaine
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I read this recently Trish and really enjoyed it. After a while you forget
about the conceit and just go with the flow of Ursula's lives. Please stick
with it.
On 11 Jun 2013, at 23:54, Trish Talbot wrote:
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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