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Much, There

Revisado: 01-11-20

This is a compelling perspective, impressively wrought in what I understand is Tommy Orange's first novel. The characters come across as real, alive, and urgent. This bodes well of more to come and I find it personally encouraging that there are living, gifted poets who not just see, but create beauty regardless of where they find themselves in the pile.

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A frozen perspective

Revisado: 01-10-20

This book is unworthy of the time it takes to read/listen to it; emblematic of an author with a frozen, adolescent and undeveloped perspective who yet insists on pummeling the reader/listener with faux academic authority. I used to think that historians that fail to inform their work with real experience, robust self-examination, and rigorous analysis were simply a waste of energy, but now see that there mere publication reinforces the suggestion that such ideas actually have merit or even accurate. There are so, so many better books on America and American history, westward expansion, geography and ethnography.

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Big dissapointment

Revisado: 01-10-20

One reviewer suggested this novel would have benefited from much stricter editing. I am not one to agree with that optimistic assessment. I simply wish I had back the time spent reading and listening to this. The dialogue is Randian (and that is most definitely not a compliment), the characters and plot are both poor and poorly developed, and the author's use of changes in perspective and timing come across as purely for display, ineffective at that. Random observations, trite musings, and the collection of phrase-turns don't help, either. I had thought the author was male given the plasticity of the female characters, which is a reminder to keep an open mind. Regrettably, the narration also disappoints.

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