A halfway interesting read, and the plot had a lot of promise even if parts of it are ridiculously far-fetched (amputation is not something flighty Victorian girls do out of a manual), but I just did not like the ending, nor the whole "it doesn't matter what you do because there is a world for every choice so no matter what you choose you chose everything" -- and nothing -- "at the same time." There's no drama in a story in which no choice is final, single or decisive.
I don't respect, either, the book's sponging off religion whenever it wanted to invoke the awe and grandeur of the numinous and then running behind Darwin's shoulder to mock at stodgy Victorian grannies and satirize the author's parody of their morals, or customs -- the book doesn't differentiate. The ending reads like an agnostic's pipe dream.
Unsatisfying. Won't be re-reading.
I don't respect, either, the book's sponging off religion whenever it wanted to invoke the awe and grandeur of the numinous and then running behind Darwin's shoulder to mock at stodgy Victorian grannies and satirize the author's parody of their morals, or customs -- the book doesn't differentiate. The ending reads like an agnostic's pipe dream.
Unsatisfying. Won't be re-reading.
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