[ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:42:56 +0100
Hi
Didn't Kate Atkinson try something similar with her second book Human
Croquet. There were alternative stories depending upon whether or not
somebody was killed by a falling tree.
This was not too confusing as there were only the two alternatives but more
alternatives would certainly make me pause.
Steve
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On Behalf Of Trish Talbot
Sent: 11 June 2013 23:54
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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