These labels are so thin, they curl. Then when I put them in the printer, my printer jams.
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Sep 04, 2007
What a concept!
Kevin Brockmeier came up with a brilliant concept which basically says that when you die you go to a "city of limbo." You live there as long as there is someone on earth who remembers you. Most people live there for 70 years or so, then one day they just disappear because there is no longer anyone alive who remembers them. Maybe they go to heaven, maybe it's the end. No one in the city knows. It's a fabulous book right up to the end. I got the feeling that Brockmeier came up with this incredible concept, began writing, and then just didn't know how to end it. The ending left me wanting something more. When I finished the book all I could think of was, "Brockmeier was given the intellect to come up with this brilliant idea and then he blew it. He should have collaborated with someone on the ending. He dropped the ball at the end." Still worth reading, but some day he should come out with a new edition with an alternate ending.
May 04, 2008
Good Story, Wrong Genre
This story could have been told as a tale of two young people in love in the first part of the twentieth century. Instead, we are meant to endure the agonizingly slow beginning of a story of one who has died and then goes on to slowly let us in on her past life. All of the characters mesh together too neatly. The supernatural happenings a little too far fetched. The ending is written as though the author has no idea how to bring her tale to a close. It leaves you feeling as though this story has so much potential had it been written in a different way, but in the author's hands it is mangled and disappointing. The story Dominque is trying to tell is fascinating. She just picked the wrong genre. If this had been told as a piece of historical fiction, it could have been a masterpiece. As a supernatural ghost story, I'm left shaking me head.......