01-14-2019, 04:10 PM
I have had a copy of this for years, sitting unread. I last read it in my early twenties I think and could remember very little of it.
Rereading it, I found that it's just not that good. The story is thin and doesn't really go anywhere, the prose is really choppy, and when he throws out an ironic or tragic incident, he follows it with "So it goes." - which got really annoying fast. I think it's a book for someone much younger than me.
On the other hand, it is where a lot of people (including me) found out about the bombing of Dresden, so it has some historical importance, but the bombing is covered better in an essay in his collection Armageddon in Retrospect which uses some of the same phrases as this novel.
Rereading it, I found that it's just not that good. The story is thin and doesn't really go anywhere, the prose is really choppy, and when he throws out an ironic or tragic incident, he follows it with "So it goes." - which got really annoying fast. I think it's a book for someone much younger than me.
On the other hand, it is where a lot of people (including me) found out about the bombing of Dresden, so it has some historical importance, but the bombing is covered better in an essay in his collection Armageddon in Retrospect which uses some of the same phrases as this novel.
the hands that guide me are invisible