Great Circle: The soaring and emotional novel, Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2022
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Nice book for adventure story lovers. So detailed, sometime you forget while reading that the biografic Parts of Marian are Fiction.
3.5 ✨
“The point was to be someone who didn’t treat fear like a god to be appeased.” It is no easy feat (if you are not Tolstoy) to make me read 650 pages of any book. First, it takes quite the time commitment on my part, second, it requires some impeccable writing to keep me entertained for this long and third, if I am lugging around a brick of a book in my tote bag that absolutely makes my back ache like there is no tomorrow then the text better be frikkin worth it. Good news is: "Great Circle" WAS worth it. But let me qualify that. I FLEW through the first half of the book (no pun intended). I couldn't put it down. The story was teeming with heart-wrenching prose, spellbinding twists and turns, and characters that were easy to understand; easy to love. I knew I was in for a treat, so I kept reading. And reading. And reading. And suddenly, the pace was gone. I was stuck somewhere around page 450, reading twenty pages here, thirty pages there, but didn't get back into the flow that had previously ruined my sleep schedule by digging its claws deep into my conscience. The narrative's draw had vanished. I wanted it to be over. Over it was eventually, leaving me dazed. What to make of a book that started off so well and then just kind of left me hanging? For a good 400 pages I had been convinced that this would be my first five-star-read of 2023, but after that slog towards the end, I wasn't so sure anymore. This is a beautiful novel about female self-determination, about war and the soul, complex relationships, queer love and friendships, adventure, life and death. "Great Circle" has it all, and offers it to us in such a beautiful package that it is hard to turn down, so you shouldn't. Make the time to read this book, be ready for it to be difficult to stick with at times, but expect the experience to be worth it. In the end, I could only take off half a star, because damn, Maggie Shipstead knows how to write. So go read her novel.
2/5 Maybe I am not the right reader for historical fiction or I had the wrong expectations for this book but this story did not really grip me. It would have been a 1/5 or even a DNF if not for the last 150 or so pages. The whole book I was waiting for the adventure that set the plot for this story and it only came at the very beginning and, although beautifully written, did not make up for the 450 pages I read to reach it. The story seemed to drag on and on (with an unnecessary amount of weird sexual scenes) and the adventure, for which I had picked up the book, felt too rushed.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Nice book for adventure story lovers. So detailed, sometime you forget while reading that the biografic Parts of Marian are Fiction.
3.5 ✨
“The point was to be someone who didn’t treat fear like a god to be appeased.” It is no easy feat (if you are not Tolstoy) to make me read 650 pages of any book. First, it takes quite the time commitment on my part, second, it requires some impeccable writing to keep me entertained for this long and third, if I am lugging around a brick of a book in my tote bag that absolutely makes my back ache like there is no tomorrow then the text better be frikkin worth it. Good news is: "Great Circle" WAS worth it. But let me qualify that. I FLEW through the first half of the book (no pun intended). I couldn't put it down. The story was teeming with heart-wrenching prose, spellbinding twists and turns, and characters that were easy to understand; easy to love. I knew I was in for a treat, so I kept reading. And reading. And reading. And suddenly, the pace was gone. I was stuck somewhere around page 450, reading twenty pages here, thirty pages there, but didn't get back into the flow that had previously ruined my sleep schedule by digging its claws deep into my conscience. The narrative's draw had vanished. I wanted it to be over. Over it was eventually, leaving me dazed. What to make of a book that started off so well and then just kind of left me hanging? For a good 400 pages I had been convinced that this would be my first five-star-read of 2023, but after that slog towards the end, I wasn't so sure anymore. This is a beautiful novel about female self-determination, about war and the soul, complex relationships, queer love and friendships, adventure, life and death. "Great Circle" has it all, and offers it to us in such a beautiful package that it is hard to turn down, so you shouldn't. Make the time to read this book, be ready for it to be difficult to stick with at times, but expect the experience to be worth it. In the end, I could only take off half a star, because damn, Maggie Shipstead knows how to write. So go read her novel.
2/5 Maybe I am not the right reader for historical fiction or I had the wrong expectations for this book but this story did not really grip me. It would have been a 1/5 or even a DNF if not for the last 150 or so pages. The whole book I was waiting for the adventure that set the plot for this story and it only came at the very beginning and, although beautifully written, did not make up for the 450 pages I read to reach it. The story seemed to drag on and on (with an unnecessary amount of weird sexual scenes) and the adventure, for which I had picked up the book, felt too rushed.