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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
"You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living, and the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions. On every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask."
Kublai Khan and Marco Polo lounge in a walled garden. Polo recounts his travels to the aged emperor, vivid descriptions of all of the cities and peoples he has seen. Fantastical places - the architectures, the landscapes, the people and all the cultures. There are philosophical ponderings on existence and agency, there are magical references to time and dimensionality.
It's surreal, it's non-linear, and it's quite beautifully done.
Kublai Khan and Marco Polo lounge in a walled garden. Polo recounts his travels to the aged emperor, vivid descriptions of all of the cities and peoples he has seen. Fantastical places - the architectures, the landscapes, the people and all the cultures. There are philosophical ponderings on existence and agency, there are magical references to time and dimensionality.
It's surreal, it's non-linear, and it's quite beautifully done.
challenging
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I loved how this book meandered through city descriptions, how the book was both dream-like and down to earth. I read this book out loud to myself and the cadence was beautiful. This is on my reread (out loud to myself) list for sure.
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Un libro que llega a nuevas y buenas respuestas. Eso es lo que me gusta de la literatura: es capaz de unir diferentes temas y moldearlos sin tantos límites, y aún así hacernos pensar sobre la realidad. Las ciudades descritas me gustaron mucho, cada uno era diferente a la otra, variaban desde bases mitológicas hasta el pensamiento de sus habitantes. Pero cada ciudad descrita pareciese ser una parte de una sola ciudad, por lo que me queda claro para mí sobre el libro es que todos son Irene, la ciudad que se puede definir desde distintas perspectivas, lo que le da el nombre al libro, y es lo que se sujeta más a la realidad. Y ese aspecto es lo que más espero de un libro, y lo logró por medio de una narrativa que pareciese que le faltara describir más ciudades pero es que además de invisibles, son infinitas.
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I loved this book as a companion to Christopher Chen’s The Late Wedding… as a stand-alone book it is so unlike anything else I’ve ever read, but not necessarily something I would ever gravitate towards. As an actor though, there are so many great nuggets in the original book that can be useful for work on the show!
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A