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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Book Review: The ECHO MAKER


The Echo Maker

Author: Richard Powers

Pages: 451

Personal Rating: 4/5

From the back cover:

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists.

If you can get through the first 100 pages of this book it is well worth reading. This is one of the more intricate novels I’ve read in awhile. There is a lot going on that is cleverly intertwined…neurology, biology, ecology, relationships…there are four or five main characters whose lives layer over each other in an amazing and sometimes sad way.

At times it was confusing. Not because it was poorly written, I just had a hard time following on occasions. For the most part I just kept reading to see what the human mind was capable of.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Time To Catch Up

We are finally getting settled in our new house. However, not much reading has been getting done. I've either been too busy to read or too tired. I'm trying to get back into the habit of reading each night before I fall asleep.

I just finished taking inventory on my challenges and checking out new challenges for 2008. Hopefully I can finish at least one that I tried. I'm pretty sure if we wouldn't not have suddenly bought a house I would have come much closer. I still a little under two months until the challenges end so we'll see how it goes.

It would be nice if I could find time to write up reviews for the few books I did read. I guess I'll just have to keep them even shorter than I normally do.
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