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Book Review of The Echo Maker

The Echo Maker
The Echo Maker
Author: Richard Powers
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 14


The story and themes are interesting but the execution is boring and puerile. It reads like a fiction workshop exercise. No one just "says" or "does" anything. They snort, they groan, they grin, they moan. The main characters are insufferable. The plot depends heavily on uninteresting coincidences. The only likable characters are minor and far too enigmatic to really get a grip on. The dialogue is cloying and the narrative history is just broadly shoveled at the reader.

If he is a mastermind, he must have been having a very bad day.