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The Unchangeable Spots Of Leopards (2014)

by Kristopher Jansma(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0143125028 (ISBN13: 9780143125020)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: Inventive and unique, told in a tightly twisted narrative structure - A book about a book inside a novella about a short story. Character names and places may change from section to section, but it is all centered around a story of three friends and the half-truths that are told through a struggling fiction-writer's stories. Each section is a piece to the larger puzzle, the entire "truth" only clear when put together as a whole.
review 2: This book reads like a mirror facing a mirror - stories reflecting stories, until you realize it's all one story that's been flipped and retold an infinite amount of times in an infinite amount of ways. A painstakingly self-reflexive tale that traverses the globe - a little bit cheesy at times, but very smart when it comes dow... moren to it. This book reinforces two literary truths. 1. There is no truth. 2. Everything is true. Oh, and a bonus 3. Writers can be undeniably envious creatures. Nicely written. Nicely done. Also, the paperback cover of this book is amazing. Favorite line, referring to a row of airport terminal clocks: "In each of them you can see what the time would be, but only somewhere else. Between them all, you can, if you wish, determine what time it is here. These stories are all true, but only somewhere else." less

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