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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
Nicely structured but seemed to go on short tangents from time to time.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Has so little to say and takes as long as possible to say it. Not badly written on a language level, but purple and meandering.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wanted to like this so much more than I did. Some chapters had beautiful writing and with it beautiful themes and takeaways. Other chapters did not, and those were painful to get through. I recognize these shifts were meant to demonstrate the very different personalities of characters, but some of them just didn’t work for me
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Car accident
Moderate: Drug abuse
Audiobook read by lots of people.
The readers did a good job in this audiobook but I still wish I would have read it on paper. I wish I would have been able to pause and absorb certain things along the way. The writing was descriptive and sometimes hard to digest while driving a car in rush hour traffic. I felt like I missed things. I loved the writing though, and loved how the different stories of the different characters started to come together. Maybe this is a book I will have to read again sometime.
The readers did a good job in this audiobook but I still wish I would have read it on paper. I wish I would have been able to pause and absorb certain things along the way. The writing was descriptive and sometimes hard to digest while driving a car in rush hour traffic. I felt like I missed things. I loved the writing though, and loved how the different stories of the different characters started to come together. Maybe this is a book I will have to read again sometime.
Story of New Yorkers in the 1970's touched by the tight-rope walker who walked between the Twin Towers. The book read like a collection of short stories, some I liked more than others. The women's stories were better and more compelling than the men's.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This feels like a book where the concept (overlapping storylines and POV’s on the same event) is more interesting than the actual content. I feel like this book is trying really hard to be literature.
I love authors who so convincingly slip into the minds of so many different kinds of people. What a gift! Without ever focusing on 9/11 itself, the story is a beautiful and relevant memorial to that day.