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A review by montigneyrules
The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker
2.0
#readingchallenge2019 (my book with my favorite animal on the cover)
I’m fairly certain this novel is actually a transcript from a recording of a 9-year-old girl who found a microphone and rambled her entire life into it over a long period of time. Complete with tangents, the stream of consciousness is rant-like.
Granted the author does an incredible job, as a middle aged man, pretending to be a young child, but where he attempted to be clever, it felt flawed. Such as when he misspells words.
The overall whole of the novel was not a ‘good story’. I felt like an aunt telling my niece ‘uh-hu-cool-oh she did what?!-bleg. Dragging on and on and on
I’m fairly certain this novel is actually a transcript from a recording of a 9-year-old girl who found a microphone and rambled her entire life into it over a long period of time. Complete with tangents, the stream of consciousness is rant-like.
Granted the author does an incredible job, as a middle aged man, pretending to be a young child, but where he attempted to be clever, it felt flawed. Such as when he misspells words.
The overall whole of the novel was not a ‘good story’. I felt like an aunt telling my niece ‘uh-hu-cool-oh she did what?!-bleg. Dragging on and on and on