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cygnusnorth 's review for:
The Sound of Things Falling
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
I got this book as a gift so I hadn’t really read the blurb on the back or looked into who wrote it, so for the first half of the book I really thought it was a biography instead of a historical fiction which goes to show how effective the writing was, the characters felt believably flawed in a really human way, and their experiences and emotions felt really believable and resonant in a way lost of books don’t manage.
When I first started reading I was hesitant since the format was these really long paragraphs that could span multiple pages, but I was really pleasantly surprised by how easy it was read. Some of that could be accounted to spacing, font, and text size that the book used, but the author really was able to pin down a beat to the text that made it all flow, pulling me along to read more and more, an obvious poetic ability that didn’t go to far into purple prose but made the text beautiful. Additionally it goes to show how well the book was translated that this readability exists.
I didn’t know what to expect when I first opened this book, but I think I’ll carry the contents of it with my in my ribcage for a long while.
When I first started reading I was hesitant since the format was these really long paragraphs that could span multiple pages, but I was really pleasantly surprised by how easy it was read. Some of that could be accounted to spacing, font, and text size that the book used, but the author really was able to pin down a beat to the text that made it all flow, pulling me along to read more and more, an obvious poetic ability that didn’t go to far into purple prose but made the text beautiful. Additionally it goes to show how well the book was translated that this readability exists.
I didn’t know what to expect when I first opened this book, but I think I’ll carry the contents of it with my in my ribcage for a long while.