Derek's Reviews > Outside the Dog Museum

I think I've reached my limit with Carroll. Patterns become apparent: a strong-voiced narrator, engaging and interesting characters, the gradual introduction of the strange and inexplicable and how Carroll squares the circle by explaining them in a late-game revelation of a system or project far larger and stranger than the reader expected. The nature of that revelation is really not important, perhaps even an afterthought, but often relates to how mankind reaches toward God. But the important part is the human element, the characters struggling and reaching and often failing.

You read it for the voice, for the delicate expression of language, and the emotion and character. How the characters are impacted.

But it still feels like I've read this one before.