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Originally Posted by kennyc
Just finished the new Anne Tyler - Noah's Compass -- It was good kept my interest, I particularly identified with the main character. Certainly not the best book I've ever read, but I did enjoy it a lot let's say 3/5  |
Apologies for replying to my own post, but...
There was a blurb/review of Noah's Compass in the paper today.
http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_14242282
and it got me thinking/rethinking it and how it all fit together. I must say it was perhaps a bit too subtle for me. I didn't realize the implications of a few of the scenes until after reading this review and thinking about it some more. I even have to go back and find what I now realize was a pivotal scene and in the process found a typo which is itself a bit telling. The grandson named Jonah in this scene is at one point called Noah by the author -- instead of "Jonah asked" it was "Noah asked"-- I suppose it is possible this was intentional, but I think it's just a typo that slipped through. Still it was in the midst of what was a pivotal scene on which the title was clearly based.
Very interesting..
(one sucky thing was that I could not on my Sony 505 search for what I knew was there and had to convert/copy the book to my Kindle2 to do the search.
). Maybe time for a Sony 900.