Sansar Verma Verma من عند Drăgănești, رومانيا من عند Drăgănești, رومانيا

By all rights, this should be right up my alley, there's some linguistic theory geekery and I do like a good dystopia, and I am known to be partial for weird structures, but there is something missing for me. It's a little clunky, some things are a little rushed, there are some instances of telling instead of showing, and then showing a couple of chapters later, and there's a little too much causal Christianity involved for my tastes. And then there is the persistent geek voice in me saying: "But no one in their right mind would ever set up a system with only one master and no redundancy or fail over". The last part is probably me being damaged from working in CS/IT. In all, it's a reasonably good tale, and worth reading, but I don't know if I'll hang on to my copy.

While reading this book, I kept thinking that it was ok - pretty clever point of view and a unique voice. It also made me appreciate that I'm not a preadolescent boy any more. I finished the book and now it haunts me. This book is one I read for a book club and I'm really glad that I'm going to have the opportunity to talk it out with others who have read the book.