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A review by corrompido
The Theory of Clouds by Stéphane Audeguy
3.0
I got back and forth on this book. I kept expecting a narrative turn in the story that would somehow bring together some of the interesting ideas present in this book. However, as I finished it, I felt that the author never really delivered on that point, and it ultimately held the novel back.
The story has a slow somewhat detached feeling to it, which fit nicely in with the fact that it was basically a rumination on clouds by two of the main characters (who are seperated out by a hundred years.) Despite both stories that the book follows focusing on somewhat interesting characters with largely unexplained motivation, I felt that the justifications revealed by the end of the story left a lot of unanswered quest by the end and ended up being rather unsatisfying.
The story has a slow somewhat detached feeling to it, which fit nicely in with the fact that it was basically a rumination on clouds by two of the main characters (who are seperated out by a hundred years.) Despite both stories that the book follows focusing on somewhat interesting characters with largely unexplained motivation, I felt that the justifications revealed by the end of the story left a lot of unanswered quest by the end and ended up being rather unsatisfying.