Lora R. (lorabanora) reviewed on 8/4/2008 + 157 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

Why I don't like this book:
It doesn't meet my standards against swearing, sex scenes, etc. That's why I am sending it out the door. I don't usually step off the wagon so to speak, but I did this time and I still don't know how I feel about that.
Why I like this book:
I really ended up caring about the characters, which means they were well drawn. I was amazed a book that so broke the rules of linear story telling could hold its own standard for storytelling together so well. I rather had the vicarious experience of someone doing the occasional misdeed and understanding why they would do it, tho I would not do it in real life. The love story gripped me and I do not like romance novels, etc. This was a real love story very much like Odyseus and Penelope (which they are compared to in the book). The science was interesting and I felt I could follow it a/or accept it for the plot. The ambiguities and ironies and twists of the story were far more than one book usually holds. On a basic sentence level there were impossible sentences that only made sense within the frame of the story, otherwise they would break too many rules of the English language. They were so much fun to reread and try to grasp.
This was a pretty good book.

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