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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino,

William Weaver (Translator)

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Nov 01, 2016 Smit Zaveri rated it it was ok

I really wanted to like this book but I just didn't enjoy it as much. Ended up skipping too many chapter in the middle to know how it ends.

That being said, from the chapters I managed to finish, I found 'Leaning from a steep slope' to be the best. ...more

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Sep 10, 2017 Abhyudaya Shrivastava rated it it was amazing

I took a month to read this bad boy but that doesn't mean it is a slow read. As fabled, the book is not what you would call mainstream literature. It is the story of a man unable to read a book because he is being interrupted by one reason or the other. And every time he starts reading, it is a new book. So, this book is just filled by the first chapters of books that could have been amazing books in themselves.
But because we are talking Italo Calvino here, we have to drop every idea of normal ...more

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Jul 28, 2018 Eshita Dey added it

Classic Calvino flavor in the storyline.
Recommended if you are a Calvino fan!

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Nov 09, 2017 Vivek Sathvic rated it really liked it

It's like someone had kept track of all the thoughts of the author, while he smoked a really good strain.
And then added author's notes to make the reading entertaining/sensible.

"My mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sig ...more

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