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Der Tag, An Dem Das UFO Vom Himmel Fiel (2012)

by David Halperin(Favorite Author)

2.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3442312787 (ISBN13: 9783442312788)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Goldmann Verlag

review 1: Another one of those books that left me wondering what the point was, exactly. Started off pretty strong--funny, interesting, a different take on the old coming-of-age story. But got into a weird sci fi world and the boundaries of the book became uncertain. Was all this stuff really happening, or just in the kid's head? It didn't feel like literary, intended ambiguity so much as just plain confusion. I got pretty tired of it after a while.
review 2: This was a really trippy book. I like the premise: a coming of age story told through the lens of a fictitious-yet-not story. the line between what was real in the story and what was written was very blurred. This defined the book, and that is one of the parts I did not really like about this novel. First off, I am ... morenot a really fan of the sappy coming of age novel: self exploration as a theme in a more complicated book: sure, but this novel was too exploration-heavy for my taste. The plot was also incredibly hard to follow. I enjoy a complicated, twisting story, but when you start to lose track of what's real or not: that's a little bit too much. It's kind of like the movie Inception: sometimes you couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality. In this book, you had a hard time determining whether the story was being told by the narrator or formulated by the narrator in a piece of fictitious writing. The problem is that I couldn't discern between the two. This made the book hard to follow and frustrating. I like the concepts of science and religion explained in the book, but as a novel I did not enjoy it. The premise of this novel would have been better suited in a Gladwell-type book than a semi-fiction piece aimed at teens. less

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