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Reason read: June 2025 botm, Reading 1001. This was an audiobook and I am sure would have been better to actually read the book. The book has pictures of the tarot cards and this is a book about visual communication. My impression was that this was two settings; a castle, a tavern so there would be two points of view. The stories seem to be interconnected by the fact that they were travelers and none of them could speak. The use of the tarot cards as story telling and using archtypes and myths w
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"The Castle of Crossed Destinies" had an interesting concept: a number of travellers tell their stories without speaking. They do this by laying a series of tarot cards on a table. Calvino's narrator interprets the story that the cards tell. It was a very quick read at just over 120 pages.
While this book was unique and an interesting twist on storytelling, I didn't enjoy it as much as I liked the other Calvino books that I've read. ...more
While this book was unique and an interesting twist on storytelling, I didn't enjoy it as much as I liked the other Calvino books that I've read. ...more
I couldn’t engage with the first half of this at all. In the second half the episodes are longer and you begin to get a sense of the myriad possibilities that are open to a storyteller.
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