Sunday, 20 April 2008

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist


I'm not really able to write a synopsis of the book as it's very complicated and I must admit it took me ages to figure it out myself. This is a very, very odd book that I found impossible to put down but I never really understood it. I have got a very vivid imagination but I could not, to save my life, bring any pictures to life and that's a first for me.


The book is written in the way where 1 chapter is dedicated to one of the maincharacters and they alternate which can be a bit annoying as the 3 characters interact and you sometimes read about the same thing 3 times but from different viewpoints. This isn't normally a problem but when each chapter is over 100 pages long and every tiny little atom is detailed then it can be a bit ... long. But. You don't really miss anything if you skip a couple of pages (about 50 or so) when it gets a bit repetetive - and that's good, I guess.


One of the reasons I find it to be such an odd book is that I couldn't put it down despite not really liking it or did I? You see, that's what's really bugging me - I can't work out if it's a good book or not. I'm sort of leaning towards it being so complicated and therefore fantastically good but too complicated for me to get it.


I think this book promised so much but didn't quite deliver or maybe it did and, like I've already said, I just didn't get it.