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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
It starts out with an interesting premise and then goes into stories with wholly uninteresting characters, finishing up by dropping the reader into darkness and then just petering out. I don't understand how Time can put this on a best novels list.
Wow. I'm speechless. More peope should read this book.
If you like paragraphs spanning multiple pages this is the book for you.
Not horrible but I didn't find it informative, entertaining or though provoking. But it is short, so that's something.
Not horrible but I didn't find it informative, entertaining or though provoking. But it is short, so that's something.
I think this book is wasted on all the high school students who are forced to read it. It can be best appreciated when you're older. HS students *are* still made to read a novel (107 pp - !!!???) now and then still?
reflective
slow-paced
I may have to come back to this review. My head is clouded and refreshed from all the things there are to consider in this book. In just over 100 pages (in the edition I read), Wilder solves the meaning of life, something other authors have taken thousands of pages to consider or completely miss. The novel begins on July 20th, 1714, when a hazardous bridge in Lima, Peru collapses, killing five travelers. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the accident, & decides to research & write about the five people who were killed, in an effort to answer the question, why these five people? Was this "meant to be", or was it simply an accident? Are our fates determined, or random?
So many beautiful sentences and so much human emotion and life and love and fate is here - read it! And OH - this won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 - so I am back on to believing that some Pulitzer Prize winning novels are actually wonderful and enjoyable to read - and why have I never read this before?! Why didn't I read this in school??!
So many beautiful sentences and so much human emotion and life and love and fate is here - read it! And OH - this won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 - so I am back on to believing that some Pulitzer Prize winning novels are actually wonderful and enjoyable to read - and why have I never read this before?! Why didn't I read this in school??!
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I might have liked this better had I read it rather than listened. Voice was a bit bland and too soft for my road noise. Audible really needs to increase their volume levels.
A cosmic exploration into the meaning of life (and death). Heavy going for such a short novel. C+.