A review by sloreader
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan

3.0

That I couldn't find another star or two for Gould's Book of Fish may be more my failing than the book's because it likely deserves them. Much of the story's secrets seem to be endemic to the headspaces of its two authors - the putative creator, William Buelow Gould, and the dust jacket one, Richard Flanagan - and anyone else trying to snatch more than morsels of sense from the dense and discursive text may find themselves lost in the mesmerizing mess. However, the language is beautiful and the scope is epic yet also extremely personal, but one read-through may not be enough to gather in this much ambition.