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This Month's Book Club Selection - Mysterious Affair at Styles
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last updated Jan 13, 2010 09:18AM
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An Ambiguous Review for an Ambiguous Utopia
This is a difficult one to review. I enjoyed it, but not quite as much as I would have liked to, and yet I was impressed by it in other ways. It was an unusual presentation for a utopia-related novel, which I think was the source of both its strengths and weaknesses.
The main weakness of any utopia/anti-utopia novel is that it is essentially just a tour of a society. This puts characters and plot on a secondary level, serving only as a means to guide the ...more
This is a difficult one to review. I enjoyed it, but not quite as much as I would have liked to, and yet I was impressed by it in other ways. It was an unusual presentation for a utopia-related novel, which I think was the source of both its strengths and weaknesses.
The main weakness of any utopia/anti-utopia novel is that it is essentially just a tour of a society. This puts characters and plot on a secondary level, serving only as a means to guide the ...more
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