aikoa 's review for:

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

DID NOT FINISH: 23%

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Partway into the second story of a book that seems to be interconnected short stories, but almost a quarter into the book and there's no hint yet how they connect. I think I stopped reading the moment before a charcter from the first story walks in but... I hit that point where I'm just not curious what's coming next. The writing is deliberately stilted in that way that's supposed to be deep and artistic. Like these people are so profound and broken they can only speak in sentence fragments. So far the book is too one-note. It's sad. Tragic. And yet all the sadness lacks an emotional core. I'm just not interested in keeping going