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How The Dead Dream (2000)

by Lydia Millet(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Fiction

series

Trilogy

review 1: I went back and forth between thinking "do I like this? I think I like this. Nah I don't think I do. Oh maybe I do, I don't know." Some review on the cover compared the author to Kurt Vonnegut which excited me but I was pretty let down. I really like the basic idea of this story, the writing on the other hand was a little much for me. I felt like it was pushing too hard when it could've just flowed. Some chapters were difficult to finish even though I did want to know what happened. The characters didn't have a whole lot to them which really didn't make me care what happened to them.
review 2: If Evelyn Waugh had been an environmentalist you might get something like this. Her style has that wonderful acidic elegance - it never thuds or oversells. I really didn'... moret think there were any younger contemporary American writers who could still write like that. As with Waugh you don't mind the episodic plot, or the dwindling-to-nothing denouement, because most great satire has those characteristics. IMHO we need less gothic, less twee, less quirk and less clueless bourgeois liberalism in our contemporary fiction and more of this. less

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