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A review by willkay
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
4.0
I love Michael Chabon. He makes me feel cleverer just from reading his books. It is as if the words seep off the pages, up your fingers and into the brain, as well as getting there via the eyes. In this case you also get to hear the words. Nope, this wasn't the audio version of the book, but it became the audio version.
You know that moment when you arrive at the end of a sentence and you can't remember where it started and you have to go back to the beginning and it read it all again but sometimes that doesn't work so that you are left with reading the thing out loud. word. by single. word. Don't panic if it happens to you, it happens to everyone. It is an accepted learning technique (the concrete stage as opposed to the iconic and symbolic stage).
Theproblem wonderful thing with this book is that it is full of sentences that need to read out loud to grasp their full meaning. Time and time again I had to return to the start of a sentence, mainly because I got lost on the journey to the end. This could have something to do with the fact that Chabon is at his most purple throughout this book.
And at this point I realise that I haven't said anything about the story. It is set in (approximately) 950 A.D.. It is about two totally different people, who are the best of friends. It is the jolly japes that they get into on their journey along the road.
It is fun, fun, fun. Just full of very long sentences. But at the end you'll feel a lot cleverer, I promise you.
You know that moment when you arrive at the end of a sentence and you can't remember where it started and you have to go back to the beginning and it read it all again but sometimes that doesn't work so that you are left with reading the thing out loud. word. by single. word. Don't panic if it happens to you, it happens to everyone. It is an accepted learning technique (the concrete stage as opposed to the iconic and symbolic stage).
The
And at this point I realise that I haven't said anything about the story. It is set in (approximately) 950 A.D.. It is about two totally different people, who are the best of friends. It is the jolly japes that they get into on their journey along the road.
It is fun, fun, fun. Just full of very long sentences. But at the end you'll feel a lot cleverer, I promise you.