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cassidyamcintyre's review
1.75
Like lowk racist and had no plot
Just switched from scientific terminology about meteorology to vivid sexual imagery
Just switched from scientific terminology about meteorology to vivid sexual imagery
lisagray68's review against another edition
3.0
What a weird little book. I can't say I really really liked it, although I read it almost straight through, in one day. Hmmmm. Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds. How's that for a curious review?
corrompido's review against another edition
3.0
I got back and forth on this book. I kept expecting a narrative turn in the story that would somehow bring together some of the interesting ideas present in this book. However, as I finished it, I felt that the author never really delivered on that point, and it ultimately held the novel back.
The story has a slow somewhat detached feeling to it, which fit nicely in with the fact that it was basically a rumination on clouds by two of the main characters (who are seperated out by a hundred years.) Despite both stories that the book follows focusing on somewhat interesting characters with largely unexplained motivation, I felt that the justifications revealed by the end of the story left a lot of unanswered quest by the end and ended up being rather unsatisfying.
The story has a slow somewhat detached feeling to it, which fit nicely in with the fact that it was basically a rumination on clouds by two of the main characters (who are seperated out by a hundred years.) Despite both stories that the book follows focusing on somewhat interesting characters with largely unexplained motivation, I felt that the justifications revealed by the end of the story left a lot of unanswered quest by the end and ended up being rather unsatisfying.
runjuliet's review against another edition
3.0
Meh.
I picked this up cuz one of the main characters is a librarian. Yeah, I'm easy. The story begins quite slowly - and it's a short book. But Audeguy pads the story with a bunch of wonderfully arcane trivia on the history of cloud taxonomy (for real) and meteorological history. Toward the end, a rather harrowing account of surviving Hiroshima in 1946 is thrown in. It works. But it's all a bit late in the day narrative-wise, and our lady librarian protagonist is nothing but a cipher. All I really know about her is that she asks a lot of questions and loves to give blow jobs. Wacky French.
I picked this up cuz one of the main characters is a librarian. Yeah, I'm easy. The story begins quite slowly - and it's a short book. But Audeguy pads the story with a bunch of wonderfully arcane trivia on the history of cloud taxonomy (for real) and meteorological history. Toward the end, a rather harrowing account of surviving Hiroshima in 1946 is thrown in. It works. But it's all a bit late in the day narrative-wise, and our lady librarian protagonist is nothing but a cipher. All I really know about her is that she asks a lot of questions and loves to give blow jobs. Wacky French.
mattstebbins's review against another edition
4.0
Light and airy, like a summer salad, or, fittingly enough, a sky full of cirrus wisps, The Theory of Clouds held my attention even while being mostly completely forgettable. The writing style is simple, clean, and the plot similarly straight-forward: two stories running parallel, one faux-historical, the other fictitious in a more modern setting. Only a day later, I must admit I couldn't tell you much about the novel -- not the kind of book that you sink into, or really absorb and are changed by -- and yet, I found it quite enjoyable, in a way that I rarely enjoy such simple books.
Admittedly, this hardly sounds like a glowing review. But read it; The Theory of Clouds is plenty enjoyable, and fun, as a light summer read should be.
Admittedly, this hardly sounds like a glowing review. But read it; The Theory of Clouds is plenty enjoyable, and fun, as a light summer read should be.
lisagray68's review
3.0
What a weird little book. I can't say I really really liked it, although I read it almost straight through, in one day. Hmmmm. Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds. How's that for a curious review?
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