avaguearchive 's review for:

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

2.0

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I was overly aware of how difficult rating 'Invisible Cities' would be throughout reading it. While there were parts that really struck me, they tended to be odd lines or turns of phrase, only rarely full 'cities'; I felt I spent most of the book waiting for a breakthrough or at least to be moved out of my sustained sense of '...and?' The majority of what I enjoyed occured late on, which added to the expectance of an enlightenment that did not come. Perhaps a later reread will provide, but right now I can't see myself wanting to give it another go. A strange experience of a book.