Name: Our Tragic Universe
ISBN: 9781847677624

Scarlett Thomas

The brilliant new mind-frazzling adventure from the author of the 150,000 copy-selling The End of Mr. Y

Our Tragic Universe

Sarah Sammis

All the other Scarlett Thomas books I've read have been about a socially naive character who stumbles upon some universe altering secret. This one has that same promise with the omega point. But as the point of this novel is the challenge of telling a storyless story, this novel is essentially that.

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Cindy Lieberman

A book about undoing: unwriting a book, unraveling relationships. A skeptic becomes an agnostic about new-age affirmations and old-time tarot cards. Interesting, but not compelling.

Chloe Parpworth-Reynolds

I reeeeeeealllly don't know how I feel about this book. One thing I can say that I don't like is the cover, its incredibly misleading as to the books theming and tone. I know you should technically never judge a book by its cover but we all do to some degree. Also the blurb further misleads you making references to the cottingley fairies, which actually are only talked about for around three pages. This was actually one of the things bar the cover which drew me in so I feel a bit cheated in that regard.
I do love the setting as its where I'm from so it was fun recognising some of the places that were described and really being able to picture exactly where the characters were in each scene. I also enjoyed when the character was walking on the beach or knitting, it was actually kind of soothing. However there are massive sections of the book devoted to banal debate and discourse which at many times nearly had me putting the book down for good. I ended up skim reading these parts and sort of picking and chosing bits that were interesting. Over all though I will say the book is technically well written, but I actually feel it would be more suited to a novella of no more than 200 pages or a collection of short stories than a 400+ page book.
Over all I would say don't buy this book new but if you can find it second hand (like I did) for £1 or less, pick it up and give it a go - just pick and chose the bits that are interesting to you.

Our Tragic Universe

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