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12.4k reviews for:

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

4.32 AVERAGE

brynntbooks's review

4.5
adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

LOVED the different story lines. 
adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

jennreadsallthetime's review

5.0

Wow. That’s all I can say now. Please read. Stay with it. It’s worth it.
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

merakiy's review

4.5

“when a book goes out of the world, the memory does a second death”
“the roar: all his life it has rumbled in the distance. now it rises.”
“adults stand in the living room, their mouths moving like the mouths of nutcracker dolls”
“the heart healed but never completely”
“folded inside that seed is a whole wilderness”
“minerals of panic glitter in the air”
“impossible to unfasten the question marks from such statements”
“turning his neck and shoulder a vivid codon: it frightens seymour that the body contains such an extravagant color”
 “a melon rind foams with ants”
“the apparatus…is a way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing”
“already I have seen things I did not know how to dream”
“we believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives”
“all her life she has been led to believe that she is a child born at the end of things”
“I’d walk the lines into my memory”
“money isn’t everything. It’s the only thing”
“He’s a mile and a half from Eden’s Gate but somehow he can still hear it, as though it’s a prison being built around him, as though he’s a fly being wrapped and spun in a spiderweb”
“mapping a single English word onto a Greek one is almost always slippery”
“sod, freshly laid in the backyard of the model townhome, glows a dark, malignant green”
“the moon is still there in the salt but it might fall at any moment”
“as the light bleeds out of the day”
“the crinkling of the paper on the examination table borders on the untenable”
“his voice is calm but his eyes scatter”
“turn a page, walk the lines of sentences: the singer steps out, and congress a world of color and noise in the space inside your head”
“yearning for the monochromatic predictability of lakeport”
“past tense literally causes him back pain, the way it flings all the verbs into the dark”
“the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
“for many of the things you love, it’s too late. but not for all”
“it seems so incredibly, dangerously, promiscuously wasteful: water, given from the sky, in such quantities”
“she blinks; the planet rotates another degree”

kt_52's review

5.0
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

elblais's review

4.75
adventurous reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

slickvic's review

3.75
adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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audrey2909's review

4.25
adventurous challenging fast-paced
adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated