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Seven Days in New Crete
by Robert Graves
I love Robert Graves and really wanted to love this book, but I just couldn't. Unlike his historical fiction masterpiece, I, CLAUDIUS, this book is a futuristic flight of fancy that is untethered from any recognizable version of actual human experience. Don't get me wrong, I love good fantasy and science fiction, but this book is a good illustration of the truth that the further removed the plot and setting of a story is from what we might call "objective reality," the more grounded it needs to be in terms of sentence and scene-level emotional and sensory accuracy. The book's fanciful story-world and highly implausible premise require suspension of disbelief on nearly every page, and Graves makes little to no effort to meet the reader halfway. An amusing diversion at best.