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Theresa and I love Stephen King so we're excited to read a story by his son, Owen. We'll start chatting tomorrow, 4/18
I bought this one. I'll probably be able to start it towards the end of the week.
Yay!! I hope we all love it! I bought the hardcopy too, even though I had the kindle version, because I loved all the drawings and decor. I'm not sure if they are in the kindle version or not yet. . .
Ooh I got this one on a kindle deal and haven’t read it yet! I’ll try to join you but I might be a little behind.
Anyone started this yet? Or finished it? lol. I just started it and I'm on page 19 (What About That Big Place There? chapter). It is incredibly odd so far!!!! Not sure how I feel about it yet. It's early days.
I'm 175 pages through. Still not really liking it.
it's really odd, right? I'm not really finding a way to connect why I'm reading certain parts of the story. . .I'm through Part 1 and I'm still really confused on how the stories connect (view spoiler)
I’m generally lost on what on earth is happening. It feels so random and disjointed right now.
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Kristie wrote: "Oh no... I'm sorry this one isn't working for you all! I hope it starts to come together."I'm 320 pages in. It's not coming together. lol. I have 160 pages left and I'm determined to finish it today.
I hope you get it done! I think Theresa and I are tackling part 2 on Tuesday
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Oh no! lol Well, I'll definitely be skipping this one.
Elyse wrote: "I hated it. lol."Yeah.. wasn't for me either. I didn't understand the story at all. It felt so disjointed.
Wow, that is pretty strong! I'm curious to see what the ratings are on this one. Yikes!
A quick peek at the ratings and it looks like people either hate it or love it, not much in between. Seems mostly hate. Elyse, I love your review, lol.
Tasha wrote: "A quick peek at the ratings and it looks like people either hate it or love it, not much in between. Seems mostly hate. Elyse, I love your review, lol."I haven't gone back to it since I finished the book. And 'Ugh' just summed up my frustration so well. lol.
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Yeah, I think I'm just going to skim to the end, I just can't take any more of the disjointed story. . it it's pulling together and is pretty boring.
SO. DISJOINTED. Nothing makes sense!
Trisha wrote: "Yeah, I think I'm just going to skim to the end, I just can't take any more of the disjointed story. . it it's pulling together and is pretty boring."that's what I ended up doing. mostly because I was hoping there would be clarity vs DNF... there was not. ugh.
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.
Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Set against the backdrop of a nation on the verge of collapse, Dora’s search for the truth behind the mystery she’s long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds.