This is being hailed as one of the best debut novels in recent decades.
>...as I watched the branches of the beech trees being moved around by the wind, tossing out a few small birds here and there, a divination came to me with such blazing and spontaneous alacrity it pretty well blew my mind. However, the sensational mode by which the latest idea came to mind was in fact nit the least but dazzling or unprompted but was rather the sort of consolidated outcome which is typically produced when a protracted and halfhearted analytical process aggravates the superior auspices of an exasperated subconscious. Consequently, the emanation's illuminating glare softened soon enough, enabling me to continue looking at the trees while at the same time according the contents of this most recent development a privileged yet manageable place among my thoughts.
>In the most literal sense, the twenty stories that make up ... Pond
sorry, if you're gonna write like a long winded asspained english translation of some frenchmen you gotta commit to it and go all in and write a door stopper...i'm not reading a collection of short stories made of 150 word sentences.
Juan Hernandez
To be fair, the character is a detached academic.
Angel Hill
yeah i skimmed some of it on google books and that quote isn't representative of the rest of it, but it all seems p shitty desu
Jonathan Brooks
it's ok I guess nothing amazing
Jose Ross
>I had a thought, and then looked back at the trees.
The passage reads a bit like a padded essay. Not even trying to be haughty about this, but it isn't particularly pretty either. I guess if the other person is right, that this is the mind of an academic, then it is kind of funny.
But I'm not going to judge it based on that passage alone. In isolation, it ain't that compelling.
Angel Morris
Debut novels aren´t that good most of the time i suppose. Espcially if the author is young
