Laurel Brett
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The Schrödinger Girl av Laurel Brett
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.I believe I reviewed this book a long time ago. It's been too long for me to remember and I'd have to read it again...don't have the time left.
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.The storyline was intriguing but the actual book does not deliver. It is convoluted and confusing and terribly slow moving. Daphne keeps morphing into different selves as Garrett tried to figure out just who she is or if she is different people in parallel universes. Not the kind of book I would read again. I did receive this book as part of LibraryThing's early reviewer program.
I was given an ARC by the publisher to review, and I was interested in reading as it's gotten very good reviews. There are many problems with this book. One was the review copy I got was riddled with typos. The story itself is vaguely interesting but not very believable. The other issue is it's just kind of creepy. Daphne, the young girl, goes around New York soliciting older men until she finds a taker. Then the main character obsesses about her, and that just adds another level of creepy behavior.… (mer)
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.My Review
The blurb on this book immediately caught my attention: I have always been fascinated by the paradox of Schrodinger’s cat: the ambiguity, the being/not being. In addition, I loved for years in the location the book takes place in, New York City and a few blocks away from the bookstore I believe the protagonist and the eponymous girl meet in. The time is the 1960s—a time when I was a teenager trying to make sense of the world.
Garrett Adams is a behavioral psychologist feeling uninspired and discouraged in his career, his relationships, and his life. He can’t make sense of or embrace the time he is living in: the 1960s. He is boring and bored. Then he meets teenage Daphne in a bookstore. They are both looking for a book on quantum physics. This fact draws them together and they continue to meet and explore New York City. But Daphne seems a little different at each meeting. We come to understand that this is a book of parallel worlds and multiple beings.
His experience of these worlds and new perspectives dislodges Garret from his depressed state and awakens him to his own life. He begins to examine his relationships, including the wished for one of being a father. He begins to come to life.
Although slow moving at times, I was engaged by the premise of the book and how it is worked out. Garrett is not a likable character—not repulsive but boring (as he is bored) but becomes more interesting as the book progresses. I found myself looking forward to each of Daphne’s appearances, to see who she is now: always a little different yet still the same.
An interesting look at what the world could be—and perhaps, in fact, is. Many worlds beyond our imagination. My thanks to Library.Thing, Laurel Brett, and Akashic Books for providing me with a free copy.… (mer)
The blurb on this book immediately caught my attention: I have always been fascinated by the paradox of Schrodinger’s cat: the ambiguity, the being/not being. In addition, I loved for years in the location the book takes place in, New York City and a few blocks away from the bookstore I believe the protagonist and the eponymous girl meet in. The time is the 1960s—a time when I was a teenager trying to make sense of the world.
Garrett Adams is a behavioral psychologist feeling uninspired and discouraged in his career, his relationships, and his life. He can’t make sense of or embrace the time he is living in: the 1960s. He is boring and bored. Then he meets teenage Daphne in a bookstore. They are both looking for a book on quantum physics. This fact draws them together and they continue to meet and explore New York City. But Daphne seems a little different at each meeting. We come to understand that this is a book of parallel worlds and multiple beings.
His experience of these worlds and new perspectives dislodges Garret from his depressed state and awakens him to his own life. He begins to examine his relationships, including the wished for one of being a father. He begins to come to life.
Although slow moving at times, I was engaged by the premise of the book and how it is worked out. Garrett is not a likable character—not repulsive but boring (as he is bored) but becomes more interesting as the book progresses. I found myself looking forward to each of Daphne’s appearances, to see who she is now: always a little different yet still the same.
An interesting look at what the world could be—and perhaps, in fact, is. Many worlds beyond our imagination. My thanks to Library.Thing, Laurel Brett, and Akashic Books for providing me with a free copy.… (mer)
Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 39
- Popularitet
- #376,657
- Betyg
- 3.4
- Recensioner
- 15
- ISBN
- 6
