A review by shane_tiernan
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

1.0

I put off reading this for a long time because I had heard it was really "surreal" and "dream-like". My wife picked it out for us randomly off one of our shelves. After about 65 pages we both decided to give up. We didn't know who the characters were, what they were doing or where they were. The writing was poetic, it DID seem very dream-like but there was no way we were spending the next couple weeks reading a bunch of beautiful words that didn't seem to make a lot of sense. If I want that I can read Shakespeare.