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  • Disappointing

  • I thoroughly enjoyed House of Leaves, and while I knew this book was going to be very different, I was still looking forward to the same enjoyment I received from Danielewski's avant-garde style and non-linear structure.

    I read the book in the recommended "read 8 pages one direction, and then ... Continue

    I thoroughly enjoyed House of Leaves, and while I knew this book was going to be very different, I was still looking forward to the same enjoyment I received from Danielewski's avant-garde style and non-linear structure.

    I read the book in the recommended "read 8 pages one direction, and then flip around and read 8 in the other" style, but I just couldn't find anything interesting in either character and their respective stories and perspective. I was sadly disappointed and can't really bring myself to finish this novel.

    

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Sam:
They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully:
We’re allways sixteen.
Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself.
By turns beguiling and gripping, finally worldwrecking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever published before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.

Hailey:
They were with us before Tristan & Isolde. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, gleefully carolling:
We’re allways sixteen.
Hailey & Sam, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Shelby Mustang to Sumover Linx, careen from the Civil Rights Movement to the Iraq War, tearing down to New Orleans, up the Mississippi River, across Montana, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself.
By turns enticing and exhilarating, finally breathtaking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever conceived before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.

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