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I've finished The System Of The World, which was great -I wondered how well it would be finished, just because there was so much before it that it could have all ended quite weakly, but in fact the last 100 pages were probably my favourite of the whole trilogy. Next, I will probably be reading James Gleik's biography of Newton, so I can pretend that I'm still reading the Baroque Cycle...
On the train, it's If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things -it's getting better (more than halfway through) but the dialogue is still grating on me quite intensely. Mainly because dialogue in this vein -
I say, do you want to go out for lunch, I mean I don't.
He says, I didn't know, I.
I say, Oh oh it doesn't matter, but.
He says, smiling, well it is isn't it.
- gets a little wearing after a while. (None of this is a direct quotation, but it may as well be). I quite like some of the ideas in the book, and the way it's structured works, but it reads a bit like a creative writing exercise. |
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