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“Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.”

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

June 22, 2022 by ardaigle 2 Comments

In one word: Gutting I have something shocking to say. I hope you’re sitting down. I’m behind in my book reviews. I KNOW, I KNOW. Utterly surprising, as um, it’s become my habit, wherein I let a few books pile up, and then stress about being “behind” which I am using quotation marks to illustrate the falsity of this statement. Because how can I be “behind” in a hobby that is supposed to be fun. I mean, these are not required book reviews for a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Bewilderment, death of parent, Environment, nature, oprah's book club, richard powers, science

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Bewilderment, death of parent, Environment, nature, oprah's book club, richard powers, science ·
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Plowing the Dark

Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

June 17, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Like all novels, this one is about the representation of reality. But not like all novels, this one takes that question head on. This is another of Richard Powers’s novel where the main narrative is interpolated by a secondary narrative with mostly thematic connections to the story. The novel is about the creation of a simulated space called the “Cavern” in which users are surrounded by elaborately LCD screen, wear augmented eyewear, haptic gloves, and other features and in habit vividly drawn and rendered rooms. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: richard powers

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:314 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: richard powers ·
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“People aren’t alone, and they never have been.”

The Overstory by Richard Powers

May 10, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

  I don’t think I intended to read this book in April, but the fact that it seemed to be calling from my ever-growing TBR pile (and the library began sending notices that I was out of renewals for this one). It’s length is a little intimidating – at 500 pages, it had the potential to create a bottleneck in moving through that TBR pile. While for me, April is not an ideal month for reading (especially not this year, as more people and events […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: richard powers

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: richard powers ·
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Operation Wandering Soul

Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers

March 16, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Like a lot of Richard Powers novels, this one has a lot going on. It’s not even so much that, as he’s applying a narrative lens to many different things and then putting them into the novel. This novel like others of his, focuses on telling multiple threads and stories all together, tying them through a thematic lens more than a plot one. So what’s our lens here? Specifically it’s “Operation Wandering Soul”, which was a propaganda program during the US-Vietnam War designed to cause […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: richard powers

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:106 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: richard powers ·
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Gain – Richard Powers (1998)

Gain by Richard Powers

December 17, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

-So if I were recommending this book, it would come with a warning that a fair amount of this book is rage-inducing and saddening. We have two competing narratives. In one, we get the history of the development of a soap company beginning in the mid-19th century in the Northeast through the late 1990s. This begins with two brothers coming up with a process to mass-produce soap, to reduce the oily residue from glycerine, and then through the Gilded Age’s development of corporations (in the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: richard powers

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:519 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: richard powers ·
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October Wrap Up

Three Farmers on their way to a Dance by Richard Powers

Candles Burning by Michael McDowell and Tabitha King

Dead Men Can't Complain by Peter Clines

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

November 3, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance – 4/5 Stars This is Richard Powers’s first novel, and like a lot of first novels (he was 26 when he published it) it’s both good and precocious in various ways. The novel itself follows a few different threads, and ends up being similarly structured to a few other Powers novels. One thread involves a narrator with the last name P who is researching a photograph and learning about stories from Europe right up to and during […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Clive Barker, Michael McDowell and Tabitha King, Peter Clines, richard powers

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:439 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Clive Barker, Michael McDowell and Tabitha King, Peter Clines, richard powers ·
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