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A review by chromatick
A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
3.0
Well, that was a strange book.
Look, I really like Daniel Polansky. He has a really unique writing style. I was hooked on him after reading "The Builders". This book though. I don't even really know how to describe it.
The writing style is still there, but the book is just not that compelling overall. First off, the book is nothing like the blurb on the back cover makes you think it is. It's not even really a novel, it's more like each chapter is a short story or vignette that kind of dovetails into the next one. There really wasn't an overall plot to the thing at all. Some of the "short stories" were pretty great and others not so much.
At the end of the day if you want to read a book about a hipster in New York that likes to do drugs and hang out with his hipster friends, maybe this will be a book you will enjoy. For me, I'll stick with his other works.
Look, I really like Daniel Polansky. He has a really unique writing style. I was hooked on him after reading "The Builders". This book though. I don't even really know how to describe it.
The writing style is still there, but the book is just not that compelling overall. First off, the book is nothing like the blurb on the back cover makes you think it is. It's not even really a novel, it's more like each chapter is a short story or vignette that kind of dovetails into the next one. There really wasn't an overall plot to the thing at all. Some of the "short stories" were pretty great and others not so much.
At the end of the day if you want to read a book about a hipster in New York that likes to do drugs and hang out with his hipster friends, maybe this will be a book you will enjoy. For me, I'll stick with his other works.