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The Islanders (2012)

by Christopher Priest(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0575070048 (ISBN13: 9780575070042)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Gollancz

review 1: This is a very peculiar little book, part travel guide (to fictional lands), part short story, part documentary (also fictional). It asks some interesting questions. It was a four-star for me about halfway through... I was beginning to put together some interesting story lines. In the end, though, they didn't go much of anywhere. And the end, the end was just plain weird. So maybe the point was to pull me into a story line and then surprise me by hitting me with dead ends. But other than some nice pieces of writing here and there, it didn't end up wowing me.
review 2: I liked being in the world with winds and seas, maps that are inaccurate and incomplete, temporal vortices, strange artists. This is really what kept me reading until the end. The whole thin... moreg felt disjointed, although it did strike a decent balance between short tour book-type chapters and the lengthier character chapters. It just didn't fit together as a whole for me. I don't mind having to do a little work to get the gist of things from multiple points of view, but I missed the larger narrative — if it was there. Still, it was fun being in the world. less

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