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I know the logic behind watching an entertaining Tv show about nothing. At least it made me laugh out loud and gave me stomach cramps. ( in good way)But reading a long long and long book with multi POVs who are weekly connected with long long long descriptions about doing nothing with the long long long storylines that are stuck in somewhere without direction make me lost lost lost during my reading journey! I’m already too embarrassed to write this unpopular review opening! Couldn’t I find any...
ARC provided by Goodreads & the publisher—Scribner—in exchange for an honest review.3.5/5 starsCloud Cuckoo Land is more ambitious and complex than All the Light We Cannot See in every possible way.It’s hard not to compare Doerr’s newest book to his previous immensely successful work: All the Light We Cannot See. And if I’m not mistaken, Cloud Cuckoo Land is the first novel that Doerr published since the release of All the Light We Cannot See; that’s seven years ago. I enjoyed All the Light We C...
I’m in awe. This book is a triumph. I’d give ten stars if I could.
Some books I’ll request just because of an author. I don’t even bother reading the description. That was the case when I requested Cloud Cuckoo Land, because of my love of All The Light We Cannot See. So, I was a bit surprised when I started this book and discovered its convoluted premise. It’s got three different story lines, from three different centuries, including the future, and three different places, including an interstellar starship. There are five main characters, two each in the past
In life we often find ourselves enjoying something while simultaneously questioning the integrity of our enjoyment. It happens with movies, with pop songs and sometimes with the misfortunes of friends. It happened to me with this book. Not only did I enjoy All the Light I also took it seriously as a work of literature (as did the Pulitzer Prize judges) even though it bothered me that at the time lots of people who loved the book also loved and compared it with The Nightingale, a novel with no li...
Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered. Anthony Doerr has written a masterpiece of a tale, connecting five characters, over hundreds of years through their relationship to a single book. Cloud Cuckoo Land is an ancient story written by Antonius Diogenes around the first century C.E. (Only in the novel. While the author is real, the book was made up.) It tells of a shepherd, Aethon, seeking a magical, heavenly place in the sky, the “Cloud Cuckoo Land
this was delightful! i love stories that involve weaving different elements together and this one does just that, weaving the past, the present, and the future together in a stunning way. there were times when i felt like it didn't need to be as long as it was, but the style of writing was beautiful through and through so it's hard to complain. this was a great book to kick my year off with and it has me excited for the rest of the books i'll be consuming this year!
I love that Doerr dedicated this to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come.” Set in three distinct time frames, the past - 1453, the present, and decades in the future, this follows the stories of those living during those times, along with a belief in, and hope for, the future. The ways their stories are connected, as well as the story that connects them.This begins, briefly, with the story set in the future, the story of Konstance, a fourteen-year-old girl living on an interstella...
Behind the scenes at the publishing house:An intern is rushing around the office between her fifth and sixth coffee run of the day and is handed drafts of three different books. She’s furiously typing Christina’s order of a venti nonfat latte with 3 pumps of sugar-free cinnamon dolce into her Starbucks app when she runs straight into a colleague. Papers go flying everywhere. She turns bright red, drops to the floor, and Ben, ever so helpful, especially for having just been slammed into before he...
"And the tale I have to tell is so ludicrous, so incredible, that you’ll never believe a word of it, and yet... it’s true."Wow, what an amazing story, spanning a millennium and reaching into the future, Cloud Cuckoo Land entwines the lives of: • An ancient Grecian philosopher telling the story of a man turned into a donkey, a fish, and a crow•A thirteen year old orphan in medieval Constantinople, doing what she can to save her sickly older sister and finding a stash of archaic papyrus•A man beli...
