Lachlan

Lachlan has read a book.

Lachlan reviewed a book.

“I read this because I am becoming more and more fascinated with time (perhaps as I get older). I recently read Martin's Amis's Time's Arrow, and this is another novel about the complex way events in our lives relate to each other in a way that transcends any simple idea of sequence or causality....”

“I read this because I am becoming more and more fascinated with time (perhaps as I get older). I recently read Martin's Amis's Time's Arrow, and this is another novel about the complex way events in our lives relate to each other in a way that transcends any simple idea of sequence or causality. It's brilliantly written, like everything McEwan does. So few novels end well, but this one has a powerful and moving ending.”

Lachlan now owns a book.

Lachlan has read a book.

Lachlan reviewed a book.

“I've been travelling, and Borges was just too heavy and demanding for airport lounges. So, on my girlfriend's recommendation, I read my first Robert Coover novel, and it turned out to be just perfect. It's a hilarious but also thought-provoking tale of the end of Pinocchio's life after he has...”

“I've been travelling, and Borges was just too heavy and demanding for airport lounges. So, on my girlfriend's recommendation, I read my first Robert Coover novel, and it turned out to be just perfect. It's a hilarious but also thought-provoking tale of the end of Pinocchio's life after he has become human and the most famous philosopher and art critic on earth. Coover writes in a rich English peppered with Italian, often in page-long sentences that are perfectly formed (I'm a grammarian, so I can check this), and with a stunning richness of vocabulary. Just as Venice is decaying, so Pinocchio also falls apart as his body is victim to ever more demeaning treatment (at one point he is turned into a pizza loaf). Fabulous book, relentlessly postmodern, packed with illogicalities, inconsistences, puns, references to other artworks.”