A review by terrypaulpearce
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow

4.0

This was extremely close to five stars for me... there was so much beauty in so many places, and so much incredibly astute observation. I learned much about that time, and about power, and about language... what lost a star for me is the slightly too frequent sense of confusion in strange textual shifts and non-sequiturs. I like some fats and loose stuff with person, tense, playfulness, you know, but if it takes me out of the book and makes me say 'whut?' too often, it's too much. But there were still enough here to make me love this and get past all that with pleasure, and while this was my first Doctorow, it won't be my last.