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A review by lachateau
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Have been always loving each of Anthony Doerr's masterpieces and this one is one of them! First of furthermost, I might say that he is a hellish brilliant brat how could there were five characters in three different timeline.. And all of them are young (start my journey with Cloud Cuckoo Land as a World War Interstellar adaptation) also his writing is elegant and evocative with deep research. My heart always laid upon it everytime <3
We started at the three different timeline; Constantinople 1439, library heist (present time), and at the exoplanet and ship in the mode decades and centuries later. As I sewing saints and stars and griffins and grapevines into the vestments of hierarchs? Every time I stumbled upon his story I always wonder.. like.. What did he do to know this all? What kind of books that he read to gain sort kind of knowledges and write it accordingly? In this book we also learned about the work of raft from the cave and new words to alpha, beta, and omega-- and how it becomes a sentence. Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds. Some of the diction remind me of Tewkesbuty and Enola conversation.. And I realied that he used many old English phrases in this book so it became quite strange to me. I will learn more about it later!
He wrote the forensic report in the most poetic way with: "A trail of corpses left through the void like breadcrumbs from some ghastly faity tale." Also, the tortmen of Rex to choose book seven as he could tell yet a longer tale of all the evils which we have endured by the will of gods. How could it make sense the way you found it!!! He is really a brilliant braat!!! There are lot of moral value as the page turned on too. Like Konstance said as the tale they have to tell is so ludicrous, so incredible, that you’ll never believe a word of it, and yet—“it’s true.”
Overall, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a wide story about the universe, time travel, and history that buried in the heart of the earth.. and how they conceal as one to make this magnificent string for each other. One lack of this book that I keep find is since there are lot of characters in the story, I couldn't dig that deep into their emotion (sorta different with Marie-Laurie and Warner in All The Light We Cannot See.), like, when the chapter is getting excited, Doerr suddenly moved it to another timeline or point of view which somehow makes the readers wanted to punch the air to hold its croase. Haha. However, if you are looking for an astonishing story line that you rarely found it other and how the author can manage it as a beautiful legendary, this book was really made for you.
We started at the three different timeline; Constantinople 1439, library heist (present time), and at the exoplanet and ship in the mode decades and centuries later. As I sewing saints and stars and griffins and grapevines into the vestments of hierarchs? Every time I stumbled upon his story I always wonder.. like.. What did he do to know this all? What kind of books that he read to gain sort kind of knowledges and write it accordingly? In this book we also learned about the work of raft from the cave and new words to alpha, beta, and omega-- and how it becomes a sentence. Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds. Some of the diction remind me of Tewkesbuty and Enola conversation.. And I realied that he used many old English phrases in this book so it became quite strange to me. I will learn more about it later!
He wrote the forensic report in the most poetic way with: "A trail of corpses left through the void like breadcrumbs from some ghastly faity tale." Also, the tortmen of Rex to choose book seven as he could tell yet a longer tale of all the evils which we have endured by the will of gods. How could it make sense the way you found it!!! He is really a brilliant braat!!! There are lot of moral value as the page turned on too. Like Konstance said as the tale they have to tell is so ludicrous, so incredible, that you’ll never believe a word of it, and yet—“it’s true.”
Overall, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a wide story about the universe, time travel, and history that buried in the heart of the earth.. and how they conceal as one to make this magnificent string for each other. One lack of this book that I keep find is since there are lot of characters in the story, I couldn't dig that deep into their emotion (sorta different with Marie-Laurie and Warner in All The Light We Cannot See.), like, when the chapter is getting excited, Doerr suddenly moved it to another timeline or point of view which somehow makes the readers wanted to punch the air to hold its croase. Haha. However, if you are looking for an astonishing story line that you rarely found it other and how the author can manage it as a beautiful legendary, this book was really made for you.
“In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you’re this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent.”
“Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. she reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.”