tyardley 's review for:

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
2.0

I believe myself to be a fairly intelligent reader. I like to challenge myself and work through a book, picking it apart and coming away with some sort of new perspective or brain cell to show for my work. Having read through the reviews of this novel, I really felt I'd come away from it feeling awed.

While the prose was beautiful, and Calvino's descriptions of cities fascinating, I just didn't take much away from this in the end. I just finished If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, and found that novel to be much more engaging than this one. Maybe I'm just not as smart as I'd like to think.