Ira Sher
Autor de Gentlemen of Space: A Novel
Obras de Ira Sher
Lionflower Hedge 2 copias
The Man in the Well 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contribuidor — 59 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 69
- Popularidad
- #250,752
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 5
It is not an easy book to read. Everything is described in such a poetic way that if you try to fly over any sentence you only end up having to read it again. The reader must stop and absorb one line before tackling the next. It’s a dreamlike story where anything is bound to happen. The author somehow makes even the most absurd events, like the remaining astronauts camping outside the apartment building in their spacesuits, seem very believable. This often takes even more deep prose to illustrate what is happening. I understood the author’s desire to say something deeper with his story but such wordiness got to be a burden on the flow of the story.
Which is not to say I didn’t like the book. It was a good story and, again, somehow very believable. It was Sher’s debut novel and it would be interesting to see if he learns to streamline his writing in his next work.… (más)