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Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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Five stars for the first two hundred pages. After that, not so good.
I really loved this book in high school. Not anymore. I cannot handle non-linear books right now.
The first two hundred pages uses a dual narrative with the occasional chapter related to a virus. One story is about a pirate utopia while the other is about a private detective. I liked them both a lot. It was nice to read Burroughs using a hardboiled style with a detective.
After about two hundred pages, the stories collapse. Burroughs loses interest in them. He forgets about the stories. They do not end. He just stops working on them.
After, the protagonists travel in time, they go to other settings, they enter in the bodies of other characters. This is not as cool as it sounds. The reader is rarely aware of who is character is. And the things that they're doing have nothing to do with the earlier story. There is no connection between the two.
I really loved this book in high school. Not anymore. I cannot handle non-linear books right now.
The first two hundred pages uses a dual narrative with the occasional chapter related to a virus. One story is about a pirate utopia while the other is about a private detective. I liked them both a lot. It was nice to read Burroughs using a hardboiled style with a detective.
After about two hundred pages, the stories collapse. Burroughs loses interest in them. He forgets about the stories. They do not end. He just stops working on them.
After, the protagonists travel in time, they go to other settings, they enter in the bodies of other characters. This is not as cool as it sounds. The reader is rarely aware of who is character is. And the things that they're doing have nothing to do with the earlier story. There is no connection between the two.
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Jun 22, 2012 06:16PM
I've tried to read this 3 times. The third time, I left it in Europe. I gave it to some friends. Poor them. The synopsis looks/sounds good though. What a shame. Oh and if you're wondering, I offered NAKED LUNCH to my mother. Can't read that one either.
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I liked Naked Lunch after multiple attempts.
