Thursday, January 20, 2022

Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr

 

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr just gets all kinds of rave reviews.

Started: 1/15/2022
Completed: 1/20/2022
Recommendation: Highly recommended
Recommended By: I saw the author interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning and listening to him speak, got me interested in reading both his books.

Words for which I Sought Help:

lacuna -- an unfilled space or interval

Review:

Wow.  This is a remarkable book.  Story within story as you might expect from the author, but the way the same basic life inhabits multiple characters and how they impossibly interact is wonderful.  The way that Doerr has woven this story to life is the kind of thing that you look at from a distance and try to find a seam.

I like that Doerr does not shy away from looking at both the good and the bad within people and companies.  It is rather amazing that he can find common character traits and then show how these traits are both helpful and not.

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