Reviews - As Cidades Invisíveis

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Very interesting little glimpses of stories. The lack of cohesion moved this from a five-star to a four-star read for me, but I'm intrigued enough, and the book is short enough, that I think I'll read it again immediately. I'm looking forward to discussing this with on of my GR groups, and maybe coming to understand it a little more deeply than I'm able to just reading it myself. Calvino's writing is excellent - clever, evocative, concise. I loved the idea of cities with all these fantastical elements -- one with a parallel city for the dead, one where everything is made new each day and the city becomes surrounded by bigger and bigger piles of discarded items, one strung entirely from webbing above the ground, etc.

harlots's review against another edition

5.0

mysterious reflective relaxing

usernamerobert's review against another edition

4.0

challenging mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

blueyorkie's review against another edition

2.0

Marco Polo dialogues with Kublai Khan, telling him how he feels about the imaginary cities he has visited. Each small chapter composes them: towns and memory, cities and desire, tapered cities, cities and gaze, and cities and the dead, with a few variations. I believe that to appreciate this text better, it would be necessary to provide a decoder. Unfortunately, I had not transported as I had hoped; he slightly annoyed me.