[ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:26:25 +0100
Thanks, Ian, that's encouraging. On reflection, I had decided to persevere
with it anyway, because I think it's an interesting and clever concept.
Yesterday, following a long reading session, I had just got a bit tired of all
the mental contortions I was having to do, with rabbits dying then not dying,
maids having influenza and not having it, so on and so forth, but if you say it
gets easier to get involved in Ursula's lives as the book carries on, it gives
me hope.
Trish.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Macrae
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:44 AM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
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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