Only Revolutions

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• I wouldn't say this is unreadable ...

  Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski Doubleday £20, pp360 While doggedly working through Mark Z Danielewski's Only Revolutions, I was constantly reminded of other similarly 'difficult' works, whose invention is such that they require decoding rathe ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• O how clever

  Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski 360pp, Doubleday, £20 There is a French cinema advert for Nescafé in which the voiceover pompously ascribes to the beverage's patrons the ability to triumph over the impossible: "Capture the uncapturable ... gra ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

1 Review

• 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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• English Books
• Hardcover 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0385611382
• ISBN-13: 9780385611381
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Pub date: Sep 02, 2006
• Dimensions: 1548 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback

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