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The Reservoir por David Duchovny
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The Reservoir (edición 2022)

por David Duchovny (Autor)

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"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions-his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter-and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is, this fellow quarantine damsel in distress trapped in her own Fifth Avenue tower, leads him on an epic quest that will ultimately tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Is he a dying man going mad or an everyman metamorphosing into a hero? Or both? We accompany Ridley as he leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the Fifth Avenue femme fatale and descends into a dangerous, increasingly surreal world of global conspiracies, madness, and sickness of this viral time; beyond that, into the enduring mysteries of love and fatherhood; and deeper still, into the bedrock mystery of life itself. As Ridley's actions grow more and more uncharacteristic, he realizes the key to all the mysteries of now, and even all of history, seem to lie deep beneath the freezing waters of the reservoir. The Reservoir is a twisted rom-com for our distanced time, when the merest touch could kill and conspiracy theories propagate like viruses-a contemporary union of Death in Venice, Rear Window, and The Plague"--… (más)
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Título:The Reservoir
Autores:David Duchovny (Autor)
Información:Akashic Books (2022), 128 pages
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I had a hard time reading The Reservoir, not because it was poorly written but because I'm not ready to return to the nightmare that was COVID quarantine. But added to that, I've read reviews that said "not for me", and now I have to say that about this book. The Reservoir might be a good example of existentialist writing, but I've never seen the appeal in that genre. ( )
  fasterhorses | Feb 21, 2024 |
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I have to admit I hated this novel. The close third person POV was both claustrophobic and yet distancing for such an unlikable character - with first person, I might have had more sympathy but I doubt it. Ridley had Covid, and was lonely - I get it. But his fever dream (which I thought was real until nearly the end) was homophobic and misogynistic and, frankly, just not that well-written.

I skipped the short story at the end because I was just plain sick of Duchovny. ( )
  bobbieharv | Feb 21, 2024 |
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David Duchovny’s novella “The Reservoir” features the ultimate in social distancing. Ridley is an isolated man during the COVID-19 pandemic who, while compiling time-lapse photographs of New York City taken nightly from his Fifth Avenue apartment window, detects blinking lights in an apartment on the other side of the reservoir in Central Park, and imagines it to be an SOS signal. Ridley is divorced, estranged from his daughter, has retired young, and never leaves his apartment. With no guardrail of other people’s input to keep him from reacting to his imagined scenario, he sets out to connect with the tenant of the apartment across the reservoir. Readers accompany Ridley’s hallucinatory, now fevered mind through some very humorous and very dark encounters in Central Park, eventually into the waters of the reservoir itself. Well-written, alternatingly absurdly funny and piercingly sad, The Reservoir focuses on the need for connection, and the consequences of isolation. ( )
  leisure | Feb 5, 2024 |
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I am impressed with David Duchovny's descriptive writing style. The story, from the point of view of the main character Ridley, is set during the time of COVID-19 pandemic and takes you, if you lived alone, back to a time where you are constantly in your own thoughts and go for long periods of time without speaking to another person. As the story goes on its harder and harder to tell what is actually happening and what is happening within Ridley's mind. This story is well written and highly recommended. (I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest reveiw). ( )
  Carrie88 | Feb 4, 2024 |
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Wow what a great read! There are two stories in this book. The main one is about a guy in NYC during the time of COVID that notices a mysterious woman flicking her lights on in the wee hours of the night. I pictured the author as the main character in this story and it made it even better while reading it. Loved it from beginning to end which had a surprise I was not expecting. The other story "The Scare Owl" was about an owl who was born weak and turned into a great predator but something happens where he discovers love. Really nice short story. Ending was sad and sweet. ( )
  booklover3258 | Feb 1, 2024 |
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"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions-his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter-and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is, this fellow quarantine damsel in distress trapped in her own Fifth Avenue tower, leads him on an epic quest that will ultimately tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Is he a dying man going mad or an everyman metamorphosing into a hero? Or both? We accompany Ridley as he leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the Fifth Avenue femme fatale and descends into a dangerous, increasingly surreal world of global conspiracies, madness, and sickness of this viral time; beyond that, into the enduring mysteries of love and fatherhood; and deeper still, into the bedrock mystery of life itself. As Ridley's actions grow more and more uncharacteristic, he realizes the key to all the mysteries of now, and even all of history, seem to lie deep beneath the freezing waters of the reservoir. The Reservoir is a twisted rom-com for our distanced time, when the merest touch could kill and conspiracy theories propagate like viruses-a contemporary union of Death in Venice, Rear Window, and The Plague"--

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