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alysynhardt 's review for:
The Invisible Circus
by Jennifer Egan
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First off, let me save you some time. Don’t watch the movie. It is awful.
The book, however...
Sentence by sentence this book is compelling. It’s over 300 pages and never felt too long or dragged out. Egan’s ability to take odd occurrences of human life and make them natural, but fateful is effortless.
The characters are all unique. The dialogue is also wonderful and believable. When Phoebe travels to Belgium and France, you can almost hear accents in the syntax of the words spoken by the characters she meets there.
A few people have expressed the only unbelievable part was the minor “romance” plot toward the end. I can certainly see how it feels separate from the rest of the book, but it still felt necessary in order for Phoebe to arrive at the place she does by the time the end of the novel comes.
It’s no A Visit From the Goon Squad. The sentences aren’t strong, golden hits, but instead flow one into the next. The overall topic is less focused, more a section of a life-story than a well thought out literary piece. But it reads beautifully and her ability to fit entire lives into a few pages or so is worth the read.
First off, let me save you some time. Don’t watch the movie. It is awful.
The book, however...
Sentence by sentence this book is compelling. It’s over 300 pages and never felt too long or dragged out. Egan’s ability to take odd occurrences of human life and make them natural, but fateful is effortless.
The characters are all unique. The dialogue is also wonderful and believable. When Phoebe travels to Belgium and France, you can almost hear accents in the syntax of the words spoken by the characters she meets there.
A few people have expressed the only unbelievable part was the minor “romance” plot toward the end. I can certainly see how it feels separate from the rest of the book, but it still felt necessary in order for Phoebe to arrive at the place she does by the time the end of the novel comes.
It’s no A Visit From the Goon Squad. The sentences aren’t strong, golden hits, but instead flow one into the next. The overall topic is less focused, more a section of a life-story than a well thought out literary piece. But it reads beautifully and her ability to fit entire lives into a few pages or so is worth the read.